iMac does not see external data hdd
- Thread starter harris.b
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Are you using the correct carrier case to place the hard drive into from your MacBook? If the drive was removed from a MacBook it has to be a SATA drive. That means the carrier case likewise has to support a SATA drive.
Person at "Genius Bar" wrote what kind of case to get. when I finally got iMac to see the seagate 120gb hdd. disk utility gave me an error message of Partition map check failed because no slices were found." Can not find out on Apple web site what error means. Any suggestions????? Do not want to format till I get some pictures off of hdd...
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It sounds like the partition map (table) on the drive is munged. Which means the data is there but you can't get at it. How important are the photos? If they're important enough, you can try data recovery software or try to repair the drive with more sophisticated software. Both expensive, however.
Data Rescue 3
Disk Warrior
Data Rescue 3
Disk Warrior
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