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Before anyone flames me I swear I have searched and searched and tried all of the suggestions but I desperately need help.
I have a friend's Power Mac G5 with a 250GB Hard Drive. It's detecting that hard drive...it's just running low on space. I told him it would be best to upgrade the hard drive so I ordered a Western Digital 500GB Hard Drive Caviar Blue SATA. I remembered that I have to initialize the drive with Disk Utility.
BTW, the old install is Tiger but I have a Leopard DVD that if it works he's willing to buy from me because I don't need it anymore as I bought a new mac with Snow Leopard. So there is no pirated software involved here.
Anyway, I put the hard drive in, ran the installation, started Disk Utility, and it doesn't see the hard drive. So the next option I have is to load it into a SATA dock I have and connect it to my MBP (Snow Leopard) and rule out a DOA hard drive. Snow Leopard sees it with no problem. It prompted me to initialize it. I did then I took it out and put it back into the Power Mac. Still didn't detect it.
I take it back out put it in the SATA doc and decide to partition it with the option for it to be bootable in a PowerPC machine instead of intel. Tried it in the Power Mac again. No hard drive detected.
So then I put it back in the SATA dock and Verify and the after that didn't let it detect it in the Power Mac I tried Verify and then Repair. Nothing. All the time the MBP is detecting the hard drive but the power mac doesn't. I even found a thread talking about disabling SSC. I looked for information on this particular drive and applied a jumper accordingly. Still nothing. I know people have successfully installed a 500GB HD in one of those machines.
What am I missing? I almost never ask for help so I'm out of clues on what I'm missing.
Also, if this is the wrong place for this please don't flame...just kindly let me know.
Please, somebody, help me.
I might be able to get my hands on a Leopard machine if this is the problem but it will take some work to find the person with it. If Snow Leopard's formatting is not compatible for some reason. I don't know.
I have a friend's Power Mac G5 with a 250GB Hard Drive. It's detecting that hard drive...it's just running low on space. I told him it would be best to upgrade the hard drive so I ordered a Western Digital 500GB Hard Drive Caviar Blue SATA. I remembered that I have to initialize the drive with Disk Utility.
BTW, the old install is Tiger but I have a Leopard DVD that if it works he's willing to buy from me because I don't need it anymore as I bought a new mac with Snow Leopard. So there is no pirated software involved here.
Anyway, I put the hard drive in, ran the installation, started Disk Utility, and it doesn't see the hard drive. So the next option I have is to load it into a SATA dock I have and connect it to my MBP (Snow Leopard) and rule out a DOA hard drive. Snow Leopard sees it with no problem. It prompted me to initialize it. I did then I took it out and put it back into the Power Mac. Still didn't detect it.
I take it back out put it in the SATA doc and decide to partition it with the option for it to be bootable in a PowerPC machine instead of intel. Tried it in the Power Mac again. No hard drive detected.
So then I put it back in the SATA dock and Verify and the after that didn't let it detect it in the Power Mac I tried Verify and then Repair. Nothing. All the time the MBP is detecting the hard drive but the power mac doesn't. I even found a thread talking about disabling SSC. I looked for information on this particular drive and applied a jumper accordingly. Still nothing. I know people have successfully installed a 500GB HD in one of those machines.
What am I missing? I almost never ask for help so I'm out of clues on what I'm missing.
Also, if this is the wrong place for this please don't flame...just kindly let me know.
Please, somebody, help me.
I might be able to get my hands on a Leopard machine if this is the problem but it will take some work to find the person with it. If Snow Leopard's formatting is not compatible for some reason. I don't know.