External HDD wont show

[mnmurgante]

Hi I just took the hard drive out of my old ibook g4 and put it in a case to use an external.
But for some reason it won't show up? I looked in disk utility and its there but i cant mount it or repair it or anything. tried it on my wife's mack book same deal. i need the data on it.

any ideas

[spinnerlys]

What kind of external HDD case do you use and please be specific?

Also does it use USB or Firewire or both?

And what Mac OS X version do you have with what Mac?


PS: It's quite an "old" thread in forum time as I just realized.

[iShater]

Also, are you using an external power supply for it?