IMAC-DV upgrade to os9.2.2 lost HD
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Name: David
Date: August 24, 2003 at 16:46:38 Pacific
Subject: IMAC-DV upgrade to os9.2.2 lost HDOS: OS9.CPU/Ram: G3 |
Comment: I tried to upgrade my IMAC from os9.2.1 to os9.2.2 All went fine until the restart. When the machine restarted it couldn't find the
internal Hard Drive. No system found, no drive found. I booted from the CD and the disk utility could not find the internal HD. What happenned?
It is behaving as if there isn't a HD installed.
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Name: WilliamLH
Date: August 25, 2003 at 08:21:04 Pacific
Subject: IMAC-DV upgrade to os9.2.2 lost HD |
Reply: (edit)This could be a number of things:
Bad install, loose Hard-Drive cable, System Corruption
Keep trying the CD and running the disk utility,
eventually it will show unless the drive went bad (that is
rare, it does happen, but very rare).
I have found in these situations that SOMETIMES, if you
leave the machine off for 12-24 hours it miraculously
and for no explainable reason (other than heat?!?!) the
drive will come back on its own.
If that fails and you grow tired of the CD Utility route, it
maybe time to try Apple Authorized Repair.
But before that do you own Norton Utilities or Norton
System Works, TechTool Pro or DiskWarrior, if so try
those (more intense Disk First Aid) if you do not own
one of those and want to try one, for a missing disk
DiskWarrior would be my first choice, but that is a
personal preference and each of those tools does
something the other does not.
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