Thinkdiff
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| reply to Green Day
Re: [OS X] Hard drive dead in Powermac G4, lost everything
If you have a "secondary" HD, it's jumpers should be set to Slave. If you remove "master" HD and boot the computer with only 1 HD attached, you'll need to reconfigure the jumpers.
If she has both HDs connected properly, and at least 1 is working alone, but nothing shows up when both connected, I'm inclined to think the first step in troubleshooting is checking the jumpers in relation to the HD's placement on the IDE cable (master or slave).
It's rare that an HD is so messed up that it forces other HDs in the computer to not be read at all. |
