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computer won't recognize hard drive
Name: Kier Atherton Date: March 1, 2004 at 16:20:51 Pacific OS: Mac OS 10.32 CPU/Ram: 1ghz g4/ 512mb RAM
Comment:
I recently installed some RAM that turned out to be faulty, and after the computer crashed one time, it gave me a message that it did not recognize my 2nd internal hard drive as a supported volume. I have since replaced the faulty RAM, but the computer will not read the 2nd internal drive, or a firewire hard drive, or a data cd(although it does recognize audio cds). The disk utility seems to recognize the hard drives and how many partitions they have, but it successfully verifies and repairs them without any result, and also doesn't display the correct names of the partitions. When I start up from the installer disc that came with my computer it recognizes the drives, so I think it must be a software problem of some sort, but I can't understand why it began when the computer crashed. Is their something I should reinstall, or any other advice on fixing the problem? Thanks
Name: dominicus Date: March 2, 2004 at 04:38:55 Pacific
Reply:
have you tried something as simple as resetting your pram? thats where a lot of those settings are stored, and it coulda got messed up during the ram install problem... just a thought...
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Response Number 2
Name: aloyolic Date: March 4, 2004 at 03:01:48 Pacific
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Have you tried using norton system work to restore volume of the hard drive or come to worst reformat the secondary hard drive. It happen to me once sadly to lost the data and reformat the drive and it recover.
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