While, with no internal hard drive installed, it only takes a moment. When using FireWire Target Disk Mode with the hard drive in place, it takes over a minute of booting until the FireWire symbol shows on the screen.When the hard drive powers on, I hear the read head move and the disc spin for about 25 seconds then both stop.I ran the Apple Hardware Test on the MacBook with no errors.I can post additional information if it would be helpful. I need to recover some files from the hard drive.Īny hints, suggestions, and/or answers would be greatly appreciated. Therefore, any disk repair/recovery utility I try can't find the hard drive to repair it. The hard drive would never show up on the desktop, in Finder, or in DiskUtility on the appropriate computer. Put the hard drive in a freezer overnight and then retry the above.įor all of the above, the result was the same.Connect the hard drive to another computer as an external hard drive with USB.Boot the mac into FireWire Target Disk Mode to access the hard drive from another mac over FireWire.
#How to format external hard drive mac os extended journaled install#
Boot from Tiger OSX install CD and use Disk Utility's repair tool.Boot from Snow Leopard update CD and use Disk Utility's repair tool.Now when I boot the computer, I get a flashing question mark over a gray folder (This means that no bootable OS was found). Everything worked fine until I was forced to hard-boot the Mac when the operation system froze. It also has Windows XP installed with BootCamp. I have a 120 GB Seagate SATA hard drive formatted as the default "Mac OS Extended Journaled" in a 2006 MacBook with Snow Leopard.