JJMc Posted November 1, 2004 Report Posted November 1, 2004 Recently, I bought a Powerbook G4 and I wanted to connect an external HD. Instead, I bought an internal hard drive and an enclosure. I put it together and all that, and connected it up. When I boot up the computer, I get a message saying "you have inserted a disk containing no volumes that OS X can read." Excuse me? Both the enclosure and the hard drive say on the boxes that they are OS X compatible. When I go into Disk Utility, it recognizes an external hard drive in the list, but it won't let me format it or mount it on the system. Any Mac users here that can help me? I'm not great when it comes to troubleshooting on a Mac. Thanks a lot!
Steviekick Posted November 10, 2004 Report Posted November 10, 2004 You might want to try restarting the computer with the system disk and running disk utility from there.
JJMc Posted November 10, 2004 Author Report Posted November 10, 2004 Thanks, buddy. I got it sorted out after making that post. Thanks anyway, though.
Steviekick Posted November 11, 2004 Report Posted November 11, 2004 No problem. Just so you know, it won't let you boot the computer up from the external hard drive. I learned the hard way .
Jobber of the Week Posted November 11, 2004 Report Posted November 11, 2004 Just so you know, it won't let you boot the computer up from the external hard drive. I learned the hard way . If it's firewire, you can. Try holding down option when you boot up sometime and check out the boot disk selector. Your firewire drives will show up there, with a little blue X if the OS is installed. Select a drive and click the right-arrow to proceed.
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