[yendorscp]

removed brand new hard drive from ibook G4 which was dying of terminal illness. bought enclosure to use HD as peripheral storage device, ATA hard drive, enclosure called Rocketfish, USB connector-- USB powers up the HD(can hear it spinning and indicator lights glows, but macbook pro can't see the hard drive, i.e. nothing appears on the desktop, can anyone help me?

[OreoCookie]

Launch Disk Utility (located in /Applications/Utilities). Does it show up there? If it does, format it and it should appear on the Desktop. If it doesn't, are you sure, all the cables are hooked up properly?

If it is a PATA drive, are you sure you have selected the drive as master (there are jumpers on the harddrive that allow you to change the drive from slave to master).

[yendorscp]

Thanks for your reply. No, drive doesn't show in Disk Utility window either. Removed drive from enclosure looking for something you call jumpers on it. See nothing that's movable or looks like a switch or setting button. What would a jumper look like?

[Simon]

The blue plastic thing is the jumper. You can remove it with a pair of tweezers.

[yendorscp]

thanks, Simon. My hard drive looks nothing like this. Could it be because it's a 2.5" hard drive? No writing as per slave/master. Seems to have 4 pins set apart at the right end(arranged in a square) but not the 8-pin jumper connector.

[yendorscp]

Simon, thanks for quick reply and foto. My HD just doesn't look like this(no writing, don't see 8-pin jumper connector, does have 4 pins at right end but arranged in a square. Mine is 2.5" drive, does that make a difference?

[Simon]

The 2.5" drive looks different indeed. But the jumpers are the same. Usually they're labeled with things like slave, master, etc.

[yendorscp]

Thanks again, Simon. I took it to the genius bar in Littleton, CO. We discovered that the HD is fine, the enclosure is defective. Thanks again for your time and expertise. Rodney Farrar