Help please... external hard drive

[lovinghurts]

Hi there,

I have a 80GB Toshiba External Hard Drive. In my Windows PC,
i can read it normally. However, i plugged it into my PowerBook
and nothing appears at all. I tink it doesn't even detect the hard
drive. I went into Disk Utility and my external hard disk was not
there.

I tried formatting in NTFS and FAT32. But both could not be detected.
I even tried deleting all the partitions and left it unpartitioned. But
still can't detect.

Kindly tell me what should i do..

Many Thanks,
Mark

 

[R.Youden]

Have you looked in System Profile? That will tell you if it detects your HD on a firewire port.

 

[pknz]

get USB Prober in the XCode Tools offered from Apple Delevlopment. if its USB

 

[lovinghurts]

its a USB.. however, when in my girlfriends's iBook, it can be
read. i tried lookin for xCode's USB prober. but can't find it. is there a simpler way ??

thanks,
mark

 

[yellow]

USB1? USB2? Which Powerbook? What version of Mac OS? As noted above, does System Profiler see it? Lotsa missing info here..

 

[lovinghurts]

Hi,

Its a USB 2. System Profiler Does Not Recognise It.. I'm using
Mac OS X Version 10.3.9.. 1.67 GHz PowerPC G4.

My GirlFriend's is a 12" iBook. It reads it fine..

Regards,
Mark

 

[yellow]

Do you have any other USB (1 or 2) devices that you can try to ensure that the USB port is functioning properly?

 

[wheezy]

Apple First, then PC

I've had to use External HD's for several classes at school, and unfortunately had to make them for Mac and PC. We've always formatted them HFS+ and then put 3rd Party HFS+ reading software on the PC, namely Macdrive (http://www.mediafour.com). It's a great easy piece of software. I would try doing this backwards than what you're doing.

 

[lovinghurts]

yes.. the usb port is working fine.. however, the hard drive still doesn't work. i wan to format it as HFS. But now, i cant even connect.. so i cant format..
help plz..
thanks,
mark