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Disk Utility won't recognize unformatted or NTFS-formatted HD's
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<blockquote data-quote="chemist" data-source="post: 795966" data-attributes="member: 84235"><p><strong>Problem solved</strong></p><p></p><p>Thank you for your replies.</p><p></p><p>To chscag: yes, that's right, Disk Utility doesn't see the drive at all</p><p></p><p>To Aptmunich: clever idea, and I was in the process in trying it, when a friend offered a solution:</p><p></p><p>Basically, PowerPC's have trouble recognizing drives that don't have an Apple partition already on them. And Disk Utility is not sufficiently robust to overcome this. [With the Intel Macs, by contrast, this does not seem to be a problem.] The solution was to install iPartition. iPartition had no problem detecting and formatting the drive. </p><p></p><p>Detecting standard hard drives seems like pretty basic functionality that shouldn't require specialized third-party software. So, to my mind, this is an instance in which Apple fell down on the job.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chemist, post: 795966, member: 84235"] [b]Problem solved[/b] Thank you for your replies. To chscag: yes, that's right, Disk Utility doesn't see the drive at all To Aptmunich: clever idea, and I was in the process in trying it, when a friend offered a solution: Basically, PowerPC's have trouble recognizing drives that don't have an Apple partition already on them. And Disk Utility is not sufficiently robust to overcome this. [With the Intel Macs, by contrast, this does not seem to be a problem.] The solution was to install iPartition. iPartition had no problem detecting and formatting the drive. Detecting standard hard drives seems like pretty basic functionality that shouldn't require specialized third-party software. So, to my mind, this is an instance in which Apple fell down on the job. [/QUOTE]
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