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Hard drive problem
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Hi, I'm new here. I own a G4 400 Mhz (832 MB ram) that I use for Final Cut Pro and other graphics applications. In the past few days I have encountered a problem with my secondary hard drive that has me stumped. The HD in question is a Maxtor 80 GB 5400 RPM, but now only displays as 31 GB.
This is the full story of my HD problem. I foolishly put my main video HD into a firewire enclosure, thinking it would simply boot normally, and connected it to my firewire port. When I booted it showed up on my desktop, but suddenly a large portion of my data was corrupted. I did not have any major projects going on, so I didn't stress about ruining the footage I already had on the drive. I tried running Norton Disk Doctor, but I got a message about a partition error that could not be fixed. At that point I decided to back up what I could and reinitialize the drive, thereby erasing everything on the disk. Whoops! Now my drive says 31 GB instead of 74 GB. I looked at the other Norton tools but I have yet to find anything that can restore my drive.
On the FCP web board someone suggested that I "zero" the drive when I initialize it. I did this wih Drive Setup, which took several hours, but no luck. It still says 31 GB.
Anyone know what the hell I did to my HD and how to fix it?
Thanks in advance.
Mike T
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i'm having a similar problem (posted below) with a 3.5" hard disk in a firewire enclosure showing up as 4GB instead of the full 20GB. Also a Maxtor drive. Can anyone help?
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this lounge is a poor substitute to the bbq.
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I checked out the Maxtor site and there was very little info on problems involving ATA hard drives and Macs. There were a few articles for PC users that relate to my problem, but natually they involve errors with Windows (specifically with BIOS). I'm still stumped.
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I would take out the IDE drive from the firewire case, and stick it in my mac. Then I would nuke it with Disk Setup. Erase it all. If that still doesn't work, erase each partition by hand (do this in LinuxPPC setup utility), then use Disk Setup to erase it again to a normal mac volume. Once it has been fixed, put it back into the firewire case.
I'm almost positive this would work. Let me know how it goes
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LinuxPPC setup utility? Where do I get that? I've already tried erasing with Disk Setup outside of the firewire drive, inside my Mac (master/slave configuration). No dice.
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Originally posted by MTomren:
<STRONG>LinuxPPC setup utility? Where do I get that? I've already tried erasing with Disk Setup outside of the firewire drive, inside my Mac (master/slave configuration). No dice.</STRONG>
You can dl it at http://linuxppc.org/download/?css_ok=1
Then burn it to a cd and boot off of it. Then use its included partition utility to delete each one by hand, and possible make a good one, or just make the good one is mac os 9 or whatever
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