Bought new hard drive, installed it + turned the mac on with the osx cd in
the drive. The osx installer ran but when it came to selecting a destination
there was no hard drive... Any Ideas????

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 6:20:09 -0400, JimmyRiddle99 wrote
(in message <d4l4kp$qc1$1@titan.btinternet.com>):

> Bought new hard drive, installed it + turned the mac on with the osx cd in
> the drive. The osx installer ran but when it came to selecting a destination
> there was no hard drive... Any Ideas????
>
>

If you installed it right, you have to run Disk Utility and format the drive
for the Mac to recognize it. Format the drive and you should be good to go.


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Thats great. Didn't realise i had to initialize it. Working fine now.

Many thanks Buzz!

JimmyRiddle99 wrote:

>Thats great. Didn't realise i had to initialize it. Working fine now.
>
>Many thanks Buzz!
>
>
>
>
You might want to get Retrospect to do automated incremental backups to
your new external hard drive.

In article <2J6dnc2sNtNux_PfRVn-rw@adelphia.com>,
macmeech@adelphia.net says...
> JimmyRiddle99 wrote:
>
> >Thats great. Didn't realise i had to initialize it. Working fine now.
> >
> >Many thanks Buzz!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> You might want to get Retrospect to do automated incremental backups to
> your new external hard drive.

How about tar and a cron job? :-)

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