New hard drive

[THE KAMEN BIZ]

I just bought a Western Digital 500gb SATA Internal Hard drive... And i Slapped it in my G5 mac (trying to link it with my protools)... and im a sign pops up and says "The disk you inserted is not readable by this computer"

Any Solutions... or Did I buy the wrong sh*t...

[Craig F]

So you're saying that Apple Disk Utility can not format the drive HFS+ journaled?

[THE KAMEN BIZ]

Every time i start my Mac up i says "The disk you inserted is not readable by this computer"

[Craig F]

does it not give you the option to Initialize?
if not I think you got a bad drive

[THE KAMEN BIZ]

Originally Posted by Craig F

does it not give you the option to Initialize?
if not I think you got a bad drive

it does gove me this option... that steps d i take nex

[THE KAMEN BIZ]

Originally Posted by THE KAMEN BIZ

it does gove me this option... that steps d i take nex

I tried to initialize ... and it told me "your start up disk is almost full" you need to make more space available on your start up disk by deleting files...

[Craig F]

OK that a new one to me for setting up a hard drive
I've seen it for burning a CD/DVD

[mix109]

I have noticed that with certain WD Drives,you have to Initialize it first using the Partition Tab (Disk Utility) then erase it.