Extra Hard Drive Missing

[laughin]

Hi! Newbie to this board and quite frustrated right now. Not because of you guys, but because I have a massive issue.

I have a PowerMac G4 Version 1.2.4 933 MHz running OSX 10... I installed software updates (sorry, I remember QuickTime was one and maybe iTunes, but nothing else), and when I restarted the computer I got the gray Apple screen with the black bar of death above it. I did everything I could to try to fix it, (reset the PRAM, blah blah), but it came down to having to reinstall with the install disk. I did that. Our Mac HD is showing, but our storage HD is not. It is internal and I do not know the stats on it because I do not have that information right now. I cannot repair permissions because Disk Utility doesn't even show that when I click on it. I did the Hardware Test and got an error for the logic board and memory: unet /5/16 post/16/2048 DIMM1/J22.

I have already come to the conclusion that all my files are gone. No biggie since I am a video editor and still have the tapes.

So what do I need to do now to get the disk to show? Go into the machine and reseat the drive?

Thanks a lot!

 

[sinclair_tm]

well, i'd open it and reseat everything, but the cpu. then restart it. if it doesn't see the hd still, then open the disk ultility and see if it sees it there, if it doesn't, i'd stick the drive in something else to make sure the drive didn't die.

 

[laughin]

Thanks. That is what I thought I would have to do.