Hard drive not readable by this computer

[Steve G.]

Hey guys,

I'm in a little dilemma here, I bought a seagate Sata/300 Barracuda internal hard drive to put into a macpro. When I followed the directions and installed it just the way they said, everything went cool except when we got to booting up the computer. When I boot the computer up it says "drive not readable by this computer" - they actually said that would happen, so they said to click one of the buttons on the left "initialize" and continue to the disk utility where the drive should be recognized - but it didn't show!
Anybody have some advise? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,

Steve


SOLVED!!! - Please delete thread Mr Eason

[cmchamp]

This is an additional drive to the OEM HD or is it a replacement? Either way, the drive needs to be formatted for the MacPro. If you have your OEM HD still there, or if you have your Leopard Install DVD (put that in the DVD drive), when you start up, hold down the option key. This will allow you to select your startup volume. If your OEM drive is there and you just want to format your Seagate, once you're Desktop is finished, go to the Utilities folder and open Disk Utility. This will allow you to format the new drive.
If your OEM HD is not there, same process, just select the Leopard Install DVD to start up from. Once there, I think there's a Utility menu you can select Disk Utility from, then initialize from there.
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How did you solve this problem Steve?

[Steve G.]

I ejected the drive and took it out, then put it back in, then it appeared there - just not like ther rest... and I have a queezy feeling that it had appeared there the whole time and I just couldn't see it cuz' it was stated differently then the rest - o well, I'm up to 3.25 TB of space now!