Chris Mackenzie
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Did you use Atto tools to format it? Can you turn off ‘ignore permissions’ on the get info window?
Aloha,
-Chris
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I like DiskTracker, it keeks the database local and you can search it anytime.
Aloha,
-Chris
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Does it boot into safe mode?
How far into the boot process does it panic? Autologin turned on?
Will it go into Target mode? Or do you have a laptop or another machine you can put into Target mode so that you can test boot the G5 from it? That would rule out hardware
Aloha,
-Chris
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My guess is that you have Energy saver set to spin down disks when not in use.
Apple Menu -> System Preference -> Energy Saver -> Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible
Try turn that off and see if it helps. It is a system preference so the issue would not follow the drive if that is the case.
Aloha,
-Chris
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If what you have is an .iso file then Daemon Tools is probably what you want.
https://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/30688
Aloha,
-Chris
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Most likely the problem is that you don’t have rights to the files. You need to change the owner over to you.
once you copy over the prefs to your folder:
in terminal navigate to the users folder
cd /users
sudo chown -R
(ex: chown -R johndoe johndoe)
sudo means do it with elevated permissions
chown is change owner
-R means recursive to all the foldersHope that makes sense, let me know if not.
Aloha,
-Chris
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It works, but it is not the same thing as Remote Desktop for PC. Depending on connection speed it may be very, very sluggish. I use it all the time to kick off renders and things like that but I don’t think I could edit in it across a slow connection.
Aloha,
-Chris
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As long as you have logged in as the new user and everything works then yes you can, but to be safe I always have two admin accounts so that I have a backup. Delete the account from System prefs and it will ask you if you want to save a disk image of it which is handy in case you find later you left something behind.
Aloha,
-Chris
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Yes, very good point.
I meant for a backup of the other drive, not what is on the new drive.
Aloha,
-Chris
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What computer do you have? If it is a G5 or newer I’d just put another internal drive in. That would give you the best performance for the money and no, 1 drive failing won’t take down the other. In older computers that use Master/Slave setups on the same bus it is possible for one drive to take the other offline if the electronics fry, but once you removed the bad drive and made sure the remaining drive was set to master you would be fine (just so you didn’t have it striped together).
If you have something older than a G5 like a dual 1.25ghz and want the best performance I’d get a SATA PCI card (if you have the slot open) and put a SATA drive either internally or in a cheapie case (or buy it already together). SATA drives are really cheap right now and the card and case would not add that much to the price, but the performance is worth it.
Aloha,
-Chris