Post by: kimmer on June 15, 2007, 03:41:20 PM
Okay. I go to DiskUtilities (which is what NewerTech's tech support says to use), I select:
- 2 partitions
- Mac OS extended Journaled
- No OS 9 drivers
- Apple partition MAP
Two hours later the beach ball is still spinning. Three hours later it's spinning and my failing hard drive is kicking and groaning. I had to force quit DiskUtility so that I could put my computer to sleep for a few hours (putting it to sleep seems to help my failing drive).
Back into DiskUtility and select the same stuff except this time I skipped the journaled (I don't even know what that is?).
The results? The same.
I gave up last night.
We tried again this morning and I'm now on my second try this afternoon. Nothing is working but that beach ball.
I checked at NewerTech's support base and this should work. I will probably open a ticket, but thought I'd ask if anyone here has any ideas.
One other thing I've noticed is that during this partition process, nothing else on my Mac wants to work well.
I would like to back up this failing drive before I lose it totally, plus I need to actually do some "work" with my computer and can't while it's all tied up because of the slow downs.
I'm frustrated.
Post by: kbeartx on June 15, 2007, 05:30:45 PM
While there might be something wrong, IMO it's more likely that the new drive is so big that it will always take many , many hours to do something like partition [or write all zeros].
Those of us who started our computer life with hard drives that were typically 500 megabytes or so can easily fail to consider that a 500 gigabyte drive is one-thousand times as big, and consequently takes WAY longer to format, erase, defrag, etc.
Post by: kelly on June 15, 2007, 06:13:22 PM
Put it in your G4 and try it.
Power Mac G4 (QuickSilver) and (QuickSilver 2002): CIP Instructions
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75314
Drive could be bad.
Post by: kimmer on June 15, 2007, 06:36:51 PM
Just in case it's my computer, we moved this drive to Sneakers and it is now going on 3 hours and still the beach ball.
Kelly, I'm also wondering if it could be a bad drive. We'll pop it into Sneakers machine and check it out (we are trying not to turn mine off as we don't want to take a chance on the drive not rebooting.)
Thanks, kbear and kelly.
Post by: kelly on June 15, 2007, 06:42:33 PM
Try Erasing it without Partitioning it and see what happens.
Post by: kimmer on June 15, 2007, 09:45:17 PM
I have a support ticket in at NewerTech.
My failing drive hasn't failed me yet, but I backed up the most important stuff onto a DVD.
Post by: MamaMoose on June 15, 2007, 11:25:45 PM
It appears you have a bad drive. Should take only a few seconds to partition and when you erase there should be a progress bar. have you using Disk Utility to verify the drive. That should tell you if all is well.
MamaMoose
Post by: kimmer on June 15, 2007, 11:43:03 PM
Drive is definitely bad -- right out of the box! *growl*
DiskUtility can't verify it.
Disk Warrior can't locate/check/repair it.
Even tried hooking it up to the Linux machine and it can see it but not partition or repair it.
So ... I'll be contacting OWC and/or NewerTech to get it returned/replaced.
I'm just hoping my failing drive holds up. :insert worried smilie here:
Post by: kelly on June 16, 2007, 02:16:14 PM
Post by: kimmer on June 16, 2007, 04:09:22 PM
