How do you correct the "no volumes mounted" problem on a Macintosh?

Question

I work with Windows PCs, not Macs, but I'm trying to help my Dad with his two Macs. I took the hard drive (with important data on it) out of the old Mac, set the jumper to slave, and installed it to the new Mac (OS 9.2). The computer with the two hard drives in it starts up fine, but seems to be ignoring the slave drive. It does not appear on the desktop. In Apple System Profiler, Internal ATA shows that two hard drives are connected and pulls the info from both of them (Master on ID = 0 and Slave on ID = 1), but out to the right of that, the master drive says its name/size, which is probably good, but the slave says "no volumes mounted", which I assume is why I cannot see the slave on the desktop. How do I resolve this so that both the master and slave appear on the desktop?

Not interested in hosting a Windows vs Mac war.

Been doing some research. It sounds like using "Disk Utility" would help me, but there is no such software as "Disk Utility" in my utilities folder. ...So how can I get that, or how can I manually do what that software would be used to do.

Answer 1

If you don't get an answer here.

try here http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa

or here http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/

There are knowledgeable mac users that can help you with your mac questions in these sites.

Good luck

Answer 2

Looks like you have the slave drive on the IDE chain 1 (i.e. it's not on the same IDE ribbon cable as the primary drive). If you do not have any other drives on the second IDE chain, you don't really need to set the second drive to be slave. If, however, you have a CD-ROM on the second chain (which I think is how the older G3/G4s were shipped), check the slave settings on the CD-ROM drive and make sure it's not set to slave as well.

You most likely have 2 IDE/ATA chains on the logic board. Each chain can handle 2 devices (HDD, CD, DVD et al). You just have to make sure each one has a master and, if applicable, a slave.

It's been a long while since I used OS 9 and I can't remember if there's any Disk Utility.. Maybe Drive Setup in the Utilities folder?

Another posibility is that the partition table on the older drive is corupt or you have some bad sectors. If you just can't get it to mount, but you can still see it in the System Profiler, get yourself a utility like Disk Warrior or Tech Tool (although, you'll be hard pressed to find a version that runs on OS 9 these days).

Anyway, good luck.

Answer 3

It's been a long time, but I think i had my secondary set to master as well, which confused the heck out of me because that was my first mac. I sold that computer, so I can't check on it for you. Sorry!

Answer 4

Step 1.

That BIG steel bin on rollers outside? Collect all hardware, including cables and cords and deposit them there.

Step 2.

Go to the puter store and buy a PC.

problem solved.