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jdunn · 13th April 2006

I meant that before clicking on the drive in the finder window, just run Disk Utility. I do realize that the drive mounts automatically (if it can).

You don't have a 5400 rpm drive in the 17" Powerbook, do you? The one that's gone bad in my 15" is a 5400 rpm. Any drive can go bad of course, but these laptop drives seem a little less robust. It's probably becuase of the lack of ventilation, but it could be something about the construction of a smaller drive that makes it more prone to fail.

It does sound like this machine needs to go to Apple for repair. If it repeatedly fails to mount AND crashes your G5 everytime, it may be beyond anything you can do for it.

Then again, maybe another G4 could mount it and it's not compatible with the G5 as mentioned above. I suppose that's possible, though improbable.

13th April 2006	#19
jdunn Head of Bumping Security (B.S) Joined: Feb 2004 Location: in the hills of Southern California Posts: 2,944	I meant that before clicking on the drive in the finder window, just run Disk Utility. I do realize that the drive mounts automatically (if it can). You don't have a 5400 rpm drive in the 17" Powerbook, do you? The one that's gone bad in my 15" is a 5400 rpm. Any drive can go bad of course, but these laptop drives seem a little less robust. It's probably becuase of the lack of ventilation, but it could be something about the construction of a smaller drive that makes it more prone to fail. It does sound like this machine needs to go to Apple for repair. If it repeatedly fails to mount AND crashes your G5 everytime, it may be beyond anything you can do for it. Then again, maybe another G4 could mount it and it's not compatible with the G5 as mentioned above. I suppose that's possible, though improbable.