Please help transfering my old hard drive

[emneild]

Dear all,

My 2004 iMac PowerPc G5 has finally died. I have taken the back off and taken out the parts I think I could pass on to others users (they will appear on eBay shortly starting at £1).

I have also extracted my old hard disk to try to save my old data (not a major concern as I have a TimeCapsule, but I can't remember when it did its last update, so am a little worried...).

I have bought a docking station for SATA drives (http://winstars.manufacturer.global.../2.5-inch-hard/1031398976/Docking-Station.htm). When I slot in my drive and turn on the docking station the drives spins into action. Unfortunately it is not appearing on my wife's Macbook Pro Desktop. I have looked in Disk Utility and can't see it there either. I have tried all combinations of power on/off versus laptop being on/off etc. Nothing is working!

Any ideas very gratefully received.

Many thanks,

Mark

 

[MacintoshMaster]

Dear all,

My 2004 iMac PowerPc G5 has finally died. I have taken the back off and taken out the parts I think I could pass on to others users (they will appear on eBay shortly starting at £1).

I have also extracted my old hard disk to try to save my old data (not a major concern as I have a TimeCapsule, but I can't remember when it did its last update, so am a little worried...).

I have bought a docking station for SATA drives (http://winstars.manufacturer.global.../2.5-inch-hard/1031398976/Docking-Station.htm). When I slot in my drive and turn on the docking station the drives spins into action. Unfortunately it is not appearing on my wife's Macbook Pro Desktop. I have looked in Disk Utility and can't see it there either. I have tried all combinations of power on/off versus laptop being on/off etc. Nothing is working!

Any ideas very gratefully received.

Many thanks,

Mark

Does the Powermac G5 work when you put a different hard drive in?

 

[emneild]

Dear MacintoshMaster,

Thank you for your interest in my issue. When I did the hardware test it came up with a Video Ram error. When I searche online it the error code would suggest that the old iMac would need a new midplane. The hardware test 'passed' all other elements (including memory).

So in answer to your point I don't have another SATA disk and have not tried the computer with a new one. Starting to be concerned that I have made a mistake by not doing so!!!

Many thanks,

Mark

 

[max¥¥]

When you go into System Profiler and look under usb to you see your docking station listed there?

 

[emneild]

Hi Max¥¥,

Thanks for your interest. In answer to your question I do not see the hard disk hub in System Profiler.

Many thanks,

Mark

 

[max¥¥]

Hi Max¥¥,

Thanks for your interest. In answer to your question I do not see the hard disk hub in System Profiler.

Many thanks,

Mark

I suspect the docking station is dud then, return it and get another one and you should be fine

 

[MacHamster68]

have you another HDD to hand that does definitely with no doubt of any kind perfectly work , then put it in the dock and see if that mounts , if it doesn't its the docking station(apparently some dont work with the intel Mac's ) , if it does its your harddrive ,


1 reason why i got rid of my intel iMac to fuzzy about what i did connect to it , it did not want to recognize the docking station i use since years with my PPC Mac's

 

[emneild]

Dear all,

Many thanks for your help. I have discovered that the issue was with the cradle. I took it back and the new one worked perfectly.

Best wishes,

Mark