External wont open on mac

Do you want to initialize the hard drive on your Mac? Or an External Hard Drive?

Assuming External Hard Drive:

1. Go To Applications.
2. Open Utilities Folder.
3. Open Disk Utility (You Should Already Have External Drive Attached To Computer).
4. On left panel select the top name of the external hard drive.
5. On the upper tabs on the right side of the panel select Erase.
6. ***Note this will delete any content on the external hard drive
7. Under Format - Choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
8. In Box Below Name The External Hard Drive whatever name you want it to be.
9. On bottom right select erase.

The External Drive will be Mac Compatible.

Let me know if you were trying to accomplish something else.

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Blinking ? mark folder means that your OS can't be found. Take out your RAM underneath the keyboard and re-insert and try again. Nothing? Install a different new RAM chip and try again. Nothing? Install your disc 1 install disc, power down, wait a few seconds, now press the power button to turn on, now press and hold the option button, until your disc 1 shows up, select it, and bring your pointer to the right arrow on the screen and press enter. Now your booting from the disc 1. Go to disc utility folder at the top of the screen and select your hard drive and then select repair disc permissions. Then shut down and reboot when finished. Nothing? Your hard drive is fu.k.d-Try re-installing the OS. Nothing? Your hard drive is really fu.k.d-You need a new hard drive. Installing a new hard drive in the iBook is a *****. You may want to pay someone to install a hard drive or you can just get a new laptop.

You need a new hard drive.
If you have another mac you can see if plugging it in in firewire mode helps. If it connects try repairing the disk permissions. If this is all Greek to you email me i can walk you through.

well there is a solution so first check the type of hard drive in your ibook and check if any of your friends have an ibook, if so replace hard drive with yours and you can extract your data if your hard drive is working.

good luck.

It may require a driver from Simpletech to function.

If it is a USB or Firewire drive, you should be able to just plug it in to the corresponding jack on your iBook. Once you do, the mac may notify you that the drive needs to be initialized (formatted) to be usable, if that drive has not already been formatted for the Mac.

If it has already been formatted, or once you let the Mac initialize it, your drive is ready to use, and is accessible via an icon that will appear on your desktop.

What I have seen with some computer models, is that the USB port cannot deliver enough current to run some devices.

If possible, use an external drive with its own power supply and see if it will work. Most likely it will.

Also, try a powered USB hub. I found that most of the time, a powered USB hub solved many problems with having enough power for some external USB devices.

Jerry G.

http://coreyarnold.org/ibook/?p=20

doesn't seem that "Simple" if you ask me. I don't think PC hard disks are compatible with Mac's. you might have to get a Mac compatible External HD.