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Why can't I erase a FW drive?
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Trying to help my sis do this and she's on other side of planet.
She bought a FW drive which is for a PC. It doesn't show up in Disk Utility.Tried restarting. Nothing. No icon and nothing in Disk Utility.
She's on X.2.x.
Any help appreciate!
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Is she the admin account?
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Anybody?
To be honest, I haven't done this with a PC FW drive, but I thought it'd be straight forward. What am I missing?
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Is the drive Mac compatible? Some come with disk utitities (than run in OS 9 likely), so she might try initializing the disk in OS 9 with said utilities.
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Since Disk Utility won't even see the drive, my guess is that there's something wrong with the drive, the cable, or the Mac's FireWire port.
What kind of drive is it? Has the drive been tested on a PC? What kind of Mac is it being connected to?
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Originally posted by tooki:
Since Disk Utility won't even see the drive, my guess is that there's something wrong with the drive, the cable, or the Mac's FireWire port.
What kind of drive is it? Has the drive been tested on a PC? What kind of Mac is it being connected to?
tooki
I think it's a h/w thing, too. This should just work. She's on an iBook. The drive is a Buslink. She got it at the Apple Center in Beijing, where she is currently teaching. It was the only FW model they offered. I haven't had a chance to iChat with her since our first attempt, but if OS 9 can't do anything (good suggestion, thanks), I'll recommend she exchange it. Maybe bring her iBook with her to the AC.
Thanks for the input.
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Actually, OS 9 is markedly inferior to OS X for dealing with FireWire drives. (OS X can "see" FireWire drives even if they can't mount -- OS 9 can't.)
But if OS X can't see it, you need to start looking at the hardware, as I explained in more detail above.
Since the Mac in question is a laptop, I'd absolutely recommend bringing it along, since then they can exclude (or diagnose!) the Mac as the source of the problem.
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