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i bought a western digital IDE HDD 250 GB for my 12in Powerbook G4, i placed it in an external enclosure so I could use Carbon Copy to copy my HDD on to it and then swap it out. however, everytime I conenct it to my powerbook, it says this device cannot be used on this computer. so I go to disk utility to format and erase it but its shows up as a 2TB HDD( which it certianly is not) and then jus freezes in the process of formatting it.

can someone please help me with this problem

Message edited by salabarria on 06-24-2009 at 07:59:07 AM

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any input on this

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Was gonna suggest it was formatted wrongly as MACs use a different file format to windows but if you tried to format it dunno, maybe grab some drivers from western digital and see?

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