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CanadianEh

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Jan 17, 2009
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Recently upgraded my Macbook from 160 GB to 320 GB. Once I upgraded, I put my original drive in a SATA enclosure. The drive spins but my Macbook does not recognize anything. Both drives has the same volume name. Does that matter? When I was cloning, both drives also had the same volume name. Any help/assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 
Sounds like you need to reformat that drive as its setup as a boot drive right now. Do a reformat and name it something like "Storage". That should get your computer to recognize it just fine.
 
techster82 said:
Sounds like you need to reformat that drive as its setup as a boot drive right now. Do a reformat and name it something like "Storage". That should get your computer to recognize it just fine.
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When I hook it up, nothing comes up on my Macbook so I have nothing to select when using the disk utility. Any other thoughts? Thanks.
 
Er, no. Just because the drive is a boot drive doesn't mean it needs to be reformatted.

I'm not sure why it wouldn't be recognized. If they have the same name (e.g. Macintosh HD) the external should show up as Macintosh HD (2) ... I think. I have tried this and don't have an external drive here.

Actually, what exactly do you mean by "not recognized". Edit: Ok just saw your second post.

Edit: if it's not showing up in Disk Utility, it could be the enclosure's at fault.
 
plinden said:
Er, no. Just because the drive is a boot drive doesn't mean it needs to be reformatted.

I'm not sure why it wouldn't be recognized. If they have the same name (e.g. Macintosh HD) the external should show up as Macintosh HD (2) ... I think. I have tried this and don't have an external drive here.

Actually, what exactly do you mean by "not recognized". Edit: Ok just saw your second post.

Edit: if it's not showing up in Disk Utility, it could be the enclosure's at fault.
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I used the enclosure during the cloning process and the drive is spinning. I guess I'll have to swap out the drives to see if the enclosure still works with the new 320. Thanks.
 
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