I have bought a Verbatim external hard drive. For some reason my Powerbook G4 wont recognise it. The guys in the apple store uploaded some files from the Powerbook onto the external hard drive to back them up. Now at home I can’t make my powerbook read the external hard drive. Any ideas?

Possible solutions:
Is it plugged in? Seriously – some drives need external power, some don’t.

How is it connected? Try a different USB socket if it’s USB.

Find the "Disk Utility" application (in Applications/Utilities) and see if that can see the drive. If it can, it will give you some information about what type of disk it is. It will also give you the option to repair the disk (permissions and file structure). This may allow the disk and file system to "mount" correctly.

All PBG4’s with >1GHz processors had USB2 connectors (that’s roughly those made after mid-2003).

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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
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3 Responses to “Why wont my powerbook read my new external hard drive?”

  1. pditty3333 Says:
    October 13th, 2009 at 10:36 pm

    Weird. Most of the powerbooks had a USB 1 slot, the drive is surely USB 2.

    Should still work either way, would just be very slow.

    It’s possible that the way the drive is formatted is not compatible with whatever version of OS X you are running (if you are running OS 9 that could be the issues) but they should read it no problem.

    Check your USB and power cables on the drive, connect it to a different USB port and restart. See what happens.
    References :

  2. T?R Says:
    October 13th, 2009 at 11:02 pm

    Possible solutions:
    Is it plugged in? Seriously – some drives need external power, some don’t.

    How is it connected? Try a different USB socket if it’s USB.

    Find the "Disk Utility" application (in Applications/Utilities) and see if that can see the drive. If it can, it will give you some information about what type of disk it is. It will also give you the option to repair the disk (permissions and file structure). This may allow the disk and file system to "mount" correctly.

    All PBG4’s with >1GHz processors had USB2 connectors (that’s roughly those made after mid-2003).
    References :
    I’m ACTC trained.

  3. Timothy H Says:
    October 13th, 2009 at 11:17 pm

    ??? MAC ??? That’s you first mistake!
    References :

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