HDD installation

[Yomama]

Just got my new G4 heheheh.

I backed up everything on my PC to a different harddrive. I took out the harddrive and pluged it in the MAC. I made sure it is on "slave".

Should I see the Icon on my desktop right away or do I have to configure something?

Thank you.

 

[springscansing]

What kinda drive is this you put in the MAC? Is it a SCSI drive? IDE? What what?

Did you try manually mounting it?

I wonder what MAC stands for anyway...

 

[Yomama]

Re:

It is a 60 Gig Maxtor IDE drive.

How would I mount it maually?

Thank you.

Y.

 

[mnkeybsness]

i don't think the mac is wanting to read the windows drive's format. go to disk utility in /Applications/Utilities/DiskUtility
check to see if the drive is recognized there and see if it's formatted or not.

if it's not recognized then you didn't hook it up right...if so, try setting it to cable select, my favorite setting

 

[zarathustra]

MAC = Mandatory Access Control, the "serial" number on network devices, i.e. ethernet cards, Airport, Hubs, etc. Yeah I hate it too.

The hard drive issue: Go to Apple System Profiler - does it show up there? If the harddrive shows up there, but still doesn't mount, you might have it formatted in a way that MAC OSX can't handle (I am not sure it will mount local NTFS volumes, I think it's only FAT or if the NTFS volume is shared on a network).



edit: mnkeybusiness beat me to it...

 

[Yomama]

RE:

Thank you.

Shows up in the Drive Utility.
mmmm I have like 20 gigs on there.

How could I transfer the info ?

Thank you.

 

[Yomama]

Figured it out

Plugged back into my windows box, made a 20 gig Fat 32 patition
plugged back into the mac ...works


Thanks anyway