hard drive not showing [Archive]

kristian

Dec 10, 2007, 12:27 PM

Hi
I have just bought a 500gb Deckstar 7K500 SATA11 16mb and according to macupgrades where I purchased it it should be compatible with my 1.8MHz single core G5 PowerMac. I have have put it in it's slot, but it does not show anywhere at all....??? Heeeelp!
Kristian

Roy

Dec 10, 2007, 03:33 PM

Hi
I have just bought a 500gb Deckstar 7K500 SATA11 16mb and according to macupgrades where I purchased it it should be compatible with my 1.8MHz single core G5 PowerMac. I have have put it in it's slot, but it does not show anywhere at all....??? Heeeelp!
Kristian

Have to thought about formating the hard drive with the disk utility?;)

kristian

Dec 11, 2007, 04:45 AM

I would love to but how do I do that when it does show up anywhere...all I get is my start-up disk...:confused:

mad jew

Dec 11, 2007, 05:18 AM

So you're saying it's not in Disk Utility? Does it sound like it's spinning up?

Roy

Dec 11, 2007, 08:44 AM

I would love to but how do I do that when it does show up anywhere...all I get is my start-up disk...:confused:

Once you get your installer disk loaded, then look in your menu at the top of the screen and you will find the disk utility under one of the columns. Once the disk utility loads, then you should see your drive you need to format. Once formated, then you should see the drive and then install/upgrade the software and etc.