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Problem using old PB HD in PC
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nathanfox83
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May 7, 2007, 03:30 PM
 
I just swapped my 7200rpm 60gig drive out of a compaq that I had into my PB G4 17" notebook. I wanted to put the macs 4200rpm drive into the PC, however, I am having a lot of trouble getting the PC to recognize and utilize the drive. For some reason PC would only register the drive as a 7gig drive, so I FDisk'd it and rebuilt the partitions. No luck. So I put it back in the mac and used Drive Genius to Initilize the drive with a GUID partition table and the Apple partition table. Neither worked. Does anyone have any more ideas on things that I can do to make this work in the PC.

I even decided to swap them back so that I could have the PC working again, but the Mac did something to the other hard drive, too and it can't be used in the PC anymore, either. I'm sure it is something easy, but I don't know what else to try.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Nate
(Last edited by nathanfox83; May 7, 2007 at 03:34 PM. (Reason:added more info))
     
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May 13, 2007, 01:46 PM
 
Very strange. What happens if you format it as MS-DOS? Maybe you could hunt around for a more sophisticated Windows disk utility.
     
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May 13, 2007, 03:25 PM
 
Sounds like the PC is quite old and you're running into a BIOS geometry issue.
     
   
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