[olug] (OT) Loner Mac

Todd Wittenmeier magitoddw at gmail.com
Sat May 9 21:29:54 UTC 2009


That's actually not a very good sign..

a Hard Drive is a Hard Drive Mac or PC, the only thing they have different
now is the file systems the OS's use.

If your BIOS isn't even able to detect the "kind" of drive it is, then the
hardware on the drive is likley damaged..

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Cheyenne Deal <deal.cheyenne at gmail.com>wrote:

> They have the flat panel iMac G5 with the isight. Whenever I put the drive
> in one of my machines, the bios shows unknown device and the os does not see
> it. It is a apple type of western digital, using sata.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Wittenmeier <magitoddw at gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 11:36 AM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] (OT) Loner Mac
>
> Is it an issue of not being able to put the drive in their old mac? I'd
> suggest using a drive enclosure if you can get ahold of one they are
> usually
> really cheap when you get them without a drive.
>
> Which mac do they have?
>
>
> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Cheyenne Deal <deal.cheyenne at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I have had my parent's mac go down. I replaced the drive and it works
> fine,
> > I need to find a mac to recover the files on the old drive. If anyone can
> > help, please respond. The version of the OS X is 10.5
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Cheyenne
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