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Intel iMac won't recognize new 1.5TB external hard drive
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1276680" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>If Disk Utility can't see the drive on either Mac, then it's almost certainly the cable or the drive. Until you can get a new cable, there's nothing else to do, short of perhaps trying it on a 3rd computer for kicks.</p><p></p><p>BTW… how was that CH94 formatted? It's supposed to be USB 2.0 compliant, as is your iMac, so those write speeds shouldn't be that slow.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: I just noticed that you think the old drive was formatted the same as the new. Since you were writing to the drive, and since OS X doesn't normally write to NTFS volumes without 3rd-party help, you likely are using a 3rd party driver to enable write access. The free NTFS-3G is notoriously slow, and if that's what you are using, that would easily explain why you had such slow write speeds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1276680, member: 38864"] If Disk Utility can't see the drive on either Mac, then it's almost certainly the cable or the drive. Until you can get a new cable, there's nothing else to do, short of perhaps trying it on a 3rd computer for kicks. BTW… how was that CH94 formatted? It's supposed to be USB 2.0 compliant, as is your iMac, so those write speeds shouldn't be that slow. EDIT: I just noticed that you think the old drive was formatted the same as the new. Since you were writing to the drive, and since OS X doesn't normally write to NTFS volumes without 3rd-party help, you likely are using a 3rd party driver to enable write access. The free NTFS-3G is notoriously slow, and if that's what you are using, that would easily explain why you had such slow write speeds. [/QUOTE]
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