I was attaching the external enclosure to a G4 Mac. I also had my husband attach it to his Windows laptop. His computer saw the drive, but that's all of course since it is unformatted. I did put it back into the iBook, but still nothing.
I've had enough of this today, will contact OWC tech...
Well, the more times you open an iBook, the faster it goes. That's the only good news.
Since I have some anal tendencies, I bought a USB enclosure for the drive to be able to connect it to my tower to see if the drive shows up there before reassembling the iBook. So I have the drive attached...
I can't format the drive since it's not showing up in any of the programs and utilities.
I'm cracking the case back open this afternoon. Hopefully the drive will work this time. Fingers crossed.
I'm assuming that KAINARC is your start up volume. You can't repair or unmount the start up volume.
I've heard some people can get a volume to mount from TechTool that Disk Utility won't. Were you able to use Disk Warrior to do repair on JUNGLEMAC?
I just replaced the internal hard drive on my G4 iBook. My problem is the drive is not showing up in Disk Utility, the system install disk, or when I have the iBook in target mode and connected to my tower.
I believe the old drive had died. When I ran the Hardware Test on it, I received an...