HFS Hard drives missing after revert back to OS 9

[Josh@Digiwave.com]

Ok-

So now I am in a majorrrr bind. I reverted back to OS 9, and booted up fine, etc. Two of my secondary drives (one the second IDE channel as the master, and one on a PCI Adaptec SCSI card) do not show up. I can view them in Disk Setup, First Aid, and Hard Disk Toolkit, but I cannot them to mount at all! I am trying everything here and I desperate to get the data on the secondary IDE drive because it contains all my clients phone #s and databases. If someone could help me please either email me or leave a reply to this thread.
My machine specs are as follows:
G4/400 PCI Graphics not AGP
512 megs RAM
1 - 10 gig internal IDE drive as master on first IDE channel
1 - 40 gig internal IDE (Maxtor) drive as master on second IDE channel
1 - 3 gig internal SCSI drive on Adapect 2940 UltraWide SCSI card.
If any other specs are necessary to solve this problem, let me know. Thanks


--Josh
josh@digiwave.com

[Josh@Digiwave.com]

I forgot to add that the interal 10 gig (on which my OSX and OS9 reside) is formatted for HFS+

The other two drives (40 gig, 3 gig SCSI) are both formatted for HFS standard, not +. I think this might be part of the problem. I need to access these two HFS drives.

[BeigeG3Master]

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[ChrisC]

I had the same problem. The internal UW SCSI partitions other than the one with my system folder was on became invisible in OS9. They were formatted as HFS. I did have another IDE drive (where OSX lives) partitioned as HFS+. Those seemed to be fine. What I noticed was that I could see the HFS partitions under OSX, so while in X I copied their contents to the visible HFS+ formatted drive (all of the partitons including my OS9 sys folder) then logged back into OS9, reformatted the SCSI hd as HFS+ and copied everything back to the SCSI partions. It caused me a real panic when I thought I had lost my drives, but there are still there, no data is gon they just seem to be invisible to OS9.

ChrisC

[dsteck]

I had the same problem with an hfs partition disappearing. I have os 9 and os X installed on separate hfs+ partitions, with another hfs partition for communicating with LinuxPPC. After installing OS X, booting into it, then booting back into 9, the hfs disk was no longer visible. I ran diskwarrior on it, which among other things made it automount again, so it is now visible under os 9 & X. Other disk utilities may work too.

[ByteMonster]

I had the same problem...it turned out to be the custom icons I used were screwed up. I ran DiskWarrior and I was fine.

Good luck!

[rhino]

I had the exact same problem on my box.
G3 350 (overclocked to 450)
512 meg of ram
Toshiba DVD drive
2 Western digital 20 gig drives

Once I got back to OS 9 I ran DiskWarrior and my hidden volume mounted and is now accessable. This happened a second time and Tech Tool also worked.

[skueppers]

After installing OS X, I found that my HFS partitions didn't appear under OS 9, too. I found it interesting that they didn't mount even when I booted from an OS 9 CD, but they showed up in the Apple System Profiler and in any HD utility I ran.

I also found it interesting that four of the affected HFS partitions had been formatted with a third-party utility (APS PowerTools), while one had been formatted with the Apple drive formatting utility.

After fiddling around with it for a while, I ran Norton Utilities 5 on the affected partitions. Norton Utilities reported that the root directory was invisible, and asked if I wanted to fix the problem.

I can now use the partitions again in OS 9; I have not yet tried booting in OS X again to see if they still mount there.

(There was one partition that Norton Utilities got confused on and never offered to fix, although the drive report says that the problem was encountered and fixed. This partition still doesn't work in OS 9, so I'll probably have to reformat it.)

-Sonja