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Retrieving a Hard Drive after it's been spun down by trashing
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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I was instructed to trash the external hard drive icon before putting my
G5 (OS 10.3.1) to sleep in order to spin down and conserve. The problem
is, when I wake my G5 to work again, I don't know how to get the hard
drive icon to appear again on the desktop without re-starting the
entire machine. Any tips here? Thanks.
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go to disk utilities and you should see the external drive grayed out. Just press the mount button to put it back on the desktop.
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By "disk utilities," the previous poster means the application Disk Utility in /Applications/Utilities.
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Won't the drive spin down when putting the computer to sleep? I don't see the need to unmount it before putting your computer to sleep unless I'm missing something here.
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Originally Posted by nerd
Won't the drive spin down when putting the computer to sleep? I don't see the need to unmount it before putting your computer to sleep unless I'm missing something here.
If the drive is smart enough to spin down upon unmount, it's probably smart enough to spin down on idle. But some crappy drive cases, like a cheapo USB2 one I have, don't allow spin down at all. As long as the drive has power, it's constantly spinning.
Either way, he doesn't need to unmount anything unless he's turning the drive off entirely.
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