My WD 150gb hard drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and reads fine on my old MacBook Intel Core Duo running OS X 10.5.8. I then plug it into a brand new MacBook Pro (Core 2 Duo running 10.6.1) and it won't recognize it. The hard drive starts up, but it doesn't show up. Any ideas? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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WD 150gb Hard Drive is recognized on old MB but not new MBP
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Usually old operating systems don't work on new machines. It's probably a firmware issue that only wants to play with SL.
I agree that this is probably a firmware issue, but I think you've got it a bit mixed up. The OP said the drive works on a Leopard Mac but NOT a Snow Leopard Mac, which suggests that the drive needs a firmware update.
Err... right. For some reason I was thinking that it was an internal boot disk. Oops.