One of my FireWire drives fails to boot...

11-08-2009, 12:31 AM

Walter

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Originally Posted by dnanian

What brand/model of drive is it?

Not sure but I'll see if i can take it apart: I know the enclosure but don't know who's drive .

Just for greater certainty I am going to reformat the drive and install Tiger to see if it boots.

The crazy thing ( to me it's crazy ) is that Apple Disk Utility and the StartUp preference panel see's the FireWired drive having OS Tiger but the drive will not boot. What's that all about?

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