MacBook with Lion will not recognize external hard drive (AMP) that was my backup for older IBook, please help

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I had a IBook G4 and an external hard drive as its back up.

IBook running something like Snow Lepord, anyway

I have a Intel Macbook now with Lion, Ive been told here there is a possible confliction between the AMP external harddrive and lion.

I will say a few times I have for limited time been able to access the drive on the newer MacBook, but then Lion (I think) drops it.

Any ideas out there?

MacBook, iOS 5.1

Posted on May 27, 2012 1:47 PM

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Answer 1

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Lion should have no issues accessing an Apple Partition Map (APM) formatted HD.

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ok, that still confusses me as does Disk Utility

for one, Disk Utility sees the drive, finder/desktop doesnt.

I tried to verify and then repair, says it cant

its format sayis it it

Mac OS Extended (journeled)

whats that mean and it the format the issue here?

thx again

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Disk Utility sees the drive, finder/desktop doesnt.

Click on the Desktop->Finder menu->Preferences->General->Show on Desktop->HDs and ext HDs.

Mac OS Extended (journaled) what's that mean and is the format the issue here?

No, that's not the issue.

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