[bfurtado]

I bought a 200GB Maxtor Hard Drive (8MB Cache, 7200 RPM). I also bought a Bytecc 740 external USB 2.0 enclosure. As soon as I put the drive in, OS X recognizes and I get a pop up window. If forget what it said and it doesn't come up anymore. I clicked the 'initialize' button and launched disk utility to create a partition, format, etc. It won't do it though. It starts for a few then the progress bar completes, but none of my volumes are named what I told it to and I can't mount them. When I verify disk I get this error.

Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)


Any ideas? I have never installed and formatted an external drive in OSX before. I used to be a Windows user.

Brian

[rozwado1]

Double check your jumper setting on the drive itself. When I did my first external, I had the jumper in the wrong place. Run a search - not sure if it's got to me master or slave.

[bfurtado]

Thanks! I did check and it was set to master. Maybe the cable wasn't plugged in well (inside the enclosure). I took the drive out and put it in my old tried and true enclosure. Found it instantly and I formatted, partitioned, etc. Then I put the drive back on the Bytecc and it worked great. I'm moving files over as I type.

Thanks for all the help!

Brian

[chrisauman]

Can you tell me how to do this? I appear to be having the same problem. Thanx.