Why won't my iMac see my external hard drive?
I have an iMac 20" 2.16 Core 2 Duo. The machine is operating fine. That's not the issue. I am trying to plug into it a 1TB Maxtor external drive that I used on my G4. The problem is the external does not show up on my iMac. I have tried using disk utility, but it doesn't see the drive. Here's the kicker. When I do System Profiler, it is seeing that the external drive is there. I have tried it through both the Maxtor's firewire and USB connections. In either connection, the System Profiler sees the drive. My question is how do I access to it?
Is this a good question?
3 Comments
Will the G4 still see it?
by mayer
Do the ports work for other things? Did you re-format the drive when you got it? If so, what did you format it as?
by mayer
I appreciate all your suggestions. However, as it turned out, the problem was the external drive was password protected by the G4. I needed to use the same password on the new iMac to get it to recognize the external drive. Once I did that, I had no trouble opening it.
by Lawrence