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Downgraded SL to Tiger, unable to see second hard drive
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Wilmington, DE
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Here’s a weird problem:
I have a Mac Pro with a second internal hard drive. I installed the hard drive when I had leopard on my computer. I made the upgrade to Snow Leopard and I had problems galore, mainly with my HP Printer not having drivers for Snow Leopard.
Now, I no longer have access to the Leopard CD, so I reinstalled the original Tiger that came with the computer and now my secondary drive is giving me problems.
My Secondary Drive will now show up in the finder. When I go into Disk Utility, the drive is listed along with the volume, but the volume has a generic document icon instead of the disk icon. I clicked the “unmount” button and remounted the drive and that did not correct it. I repaired the disk, but am unable to verify or repair the permissions, since they are greyed out.
Does anyone know what is going on here?
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When you click on the "generic document icon" in the Finder, then Get Info, what does it tell you? Folder / Document / Alias / Volume?
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The "generic document icon" does not appear in the finder, only in Disk Utility.
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Also, when I go into Disk Utility, and I go to "Get Information," the TYPE of file is listed as a VOLUME
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Ok, that rules out my first thought. I was thinking you might have a folder in /Volumes which was blocking the real drive from mounting.
Have you updated Tiger to 10.4.11 with all security updates, etc? Apple has been making small revisions to HFS+ and the last Tiger version will be the most compatible. In particular Leopard / SL volumes will be lousy with extended attributes, and SL added compressed applications to the mix. None of which should prevent mounting ...
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Join Date: May 2010
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I apologize for not responding earlier. I corrected the problem by reinstalling Leopard. It did the trick. It must have had to do with the drive being formatted with Leopard.
Thank's for your help though. I appreciate it.
PRH
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