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Internal Harddrive not mounting-HELP!
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ncollett
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Jun 22, 2003, 08:40 PM
 
Hello, i am using OS 9.2.2 on this particular machine a G4/450 w/scsi. I took a 130 gig IDE HD, that works fine, and installed it in this machine. Now the drive will not mount. I go to apple profiler, and it can see it, and recognize it is 130 gig, etc, etc. Then i went to drive setup to try and mount it, but that option is greyed out, even though it will allow me to initialize...BUT i dont want that, it has 120 gigs of data that i dont want to loose. The drive was initially initialized, not in drive set up but just in the Mac 0S 9 desktop...

What can i do to mount the drive, short of re-initializing it?
thanks so much. best, nathan
     
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Jun 22, 2003, 09:18 PM
 
As far as I know Mac OS 9 cannot handle harddrives as big as 120 GB, you need OS X in order to mount that harddrive.
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ncollett  (op)
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Jun 22, 2003, 10:11 PM
 
thanks for your reply
actually, mac os 9.2.2 can handle 130 gigs, and in fact i mounted it on that system earlier, by initializing it through drive setup... but that was a few weeks ago and since then i have re-initialized the HD...but not through drive setup...anyone else care to chime in..?
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