Hard Drive not recognised by Disk utility
Hi All,
I've just had a new Western digital 320Gb hard drive installed in my Macbook Pro. When I try and reinstall Leopard and boot from the installation disk, the new hard drive is not visible in the "Choose where to install Leopard screen" I also can't see it in Disk utility.
However, when I boot it from my old drive (it's in an external HD Enclosure) I can see the new internal HD drive in Disk utility. I have formatted it from here (Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)). Restart from the Leopard Install disk and it disappears!
Any idea of how I can fix this problem?
Cheers,
Ed
I've just had a new Western digital 320Gb hard drive installed in my Macbook Pro. When I try and reinstall Leopard and boot from the installation disk, the new hard drive is not visible in the "Choose where to install Leopard screen" I also can't see it in Disk utility.
However, when I boot it from my old drive (it's in an external HD Enclosure) I can see the new internal HD drive in Disk utility. I have formatted it from here (Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)). Restart from the Leopard Install disk and it disappears!
Any idea of how I can fix this problem?
Cheers,
Ed
Comments
Any idea of how I can fix this problem?
Take it back to who and where you got the drive installed, it's most likely a loose connection or a bad drive.
Western Digital has had some issues with drive sleep and Mac's not being able to see them because, ta da *drum roll* they are not awake!
So try another brand, Hitachi or Seagoat, err SeaGate.