HELP, I have two Wallstreets and everytime I try to upgrade the HD it just come up with a "disk" as though there is no HD in the comptuer. I am have tried a 30 GIG not apple drive in it, which is now running fine in a newer powerbook. I have tried a 30 gig from Apple with the same results (this one has the 8 gig partition for OSX) and a 10 gig from that newer power book.
The only thing I can think of is that it is not getting enought power to the drive, it makes a "breathing" sound from the drive like it is trying to spin. I noticed that the voltage on the old drives was 5V .500a and the new ones are 5V .7a and 5V 1.0a
Any suggestions???
Thanks and God Bless
bootable external drive maybe? i had heard something about newer (ATA6 ?) drives not being compatible with older (ATA5 ?) type interfaces? not sure entirely about that, but i think I had read about it here on applefritter. If thats the case an external may be your only bet? Well... i guess i didnt really help too much, did i? sorry.
In order for a wallstreet to boot off a disk larger than 8 gigs, the os must be installed on a partition smaller than 8 gigs.
I have the same problem. Booting from external does not work. All I get is the ? folder... and the machine refuses to boot from cd too. The funny thing is, I can hear the hard drive spin up, then spin down, spin up, down, etc. in cycle - as if it's trying, but not managing. This is a hard drive that was working perfectly moments before... :/
Any ideas?
Oh, and it's not a bad HD, because when I put the hard drive into an enclosure I can see it fine on my iMac and it passes all disk tests just fine.