Ide to USB hard drive not recognized by 10.5 leopard

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This R-driver III is a ide to usb adapter i am using to copy the internal hard drive's image and transfer it to a bigger 2.5" hdd i will later transplant into an ibook G4. I connected the hdd through the r-driver on my pc laptop and went into disk manager. Initialized the disk and formated it using NTFS, I went back into the ibook plugged the ide to usb into the ibook and still no hdd showing up. I gave it a drive letter and volume name in windows, and it has nothing in the apple. How can I get the apple to discover the hdd? Thanks!
 
OS X can only READ NTFS drives! Plus do you have Finder's Preferences set to "Show hard Drives on the Desktop" check marked?
 
I am not completely following you here. Are you asking why OS X does not see the HDD once you plug it in? Or are u saying it doesnt see it to boot from it?
 
ComputerDude said:
I am not completely following you here. Are you asking why OS X does not see the HDD once you plug it in? Or are u saying it doesnt see it to boot from it?
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Click somewhere on the desktop until the word 'Finder' appears in the Finder menu bar. Then click on the word 'Finder' and select 'Finder's Preferences'. Make sure the settings to show things on the desktop are checked marked.
 
You could use an NTFS-formatted volume as a storage drive, if the NTFS-3G (or similar) is installed. I don't think that you can boot to that NTFS volume, so it would be unlikely to appear as a bootable volume.
So, I suspect that SMF Mac is not seeing the volume to mount it.
Leopard can read the NTFS drive, but can't modify or write to NTFS, unless a driver like NTFS-3G is installed on the Mac.
Still need to hear back from SMF about the Finder settings to display drives on the Desktop.
 
DeltaMac said:
You could use an NTFS-formatted volume as a storage drive, if the NTFS-3G (or similar) is installed. I don't think that you can boot to that NTFS volume, so it would be unlikely to appear as a bootable volume.
So, I suspect that SMF Mac is not seeing the volume to mount it.
Leopard can read the NTFS drive, but can't modify or write to NTFS, unless a driver like NTFS-3G is installed on the Mac.
Still need to hear back from SMF about the Finder settings to display drives on the Desktop.
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i had all my hard drives formatted to FAT32 and Leopard wouldnt even detect the drives presence i had to use Mac OS X to format the drive to FAT32 then OS X detected it.
 
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