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the visible/invisble firewire drive
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Jun 6, 2003, 08:56 AM
 
running os 9.2 on a g4 desktop;

i have a firewire drive that has sort-of disappeared.

it does not show on the desktop. but i can access Premiere files from it, and the drive shows up in system profiler.

other apps can't access their files on it.

i tried rebuilding the desktop...

any ideas?? seems odd...


thanx!
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Jun 8, 2003, 09:46 AM
 
*bumbp* (just this once... )

anyone??


thanx!
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Jun 8, 2003, 11:23 AM
 
Run DiskWarrior on it.

If DiskWarrior can't see the FireWire drive, it may be necessary to remove the IDE drive from the FireWire case and install it directly in a Mac to do the repair.

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Jun 8, 2003, 01:58 PM
 
Originally posted by tooki:
Run DiskWarrior on it.

If DiskWarrior can't see the FireWire drive, it may be necessary to remove the IDE drive from the FireWire case and install it directly in a Mac to do the repair.

tooki
yeah, i'd do what tooki said. i have a drive that couldn't mount in my fw case. i took it out, put it on the internal IDE, and the computer saw it in 9; then i ran diskwarrior on it.

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