Adding additonal pre formatted hard drive is unrecognised

[chazman888]

Hi all, I have recently run out of hard disk space on my Macbook Pro, I decided to remove the optical bay and install a secondary samsung 1TB hard drive.

However I first of all put the 1TB hard drive into a USB caddy and formatted it with MAC OS Extended Journal. I then moved some data across from the Mac to free up some room.

Next I installed the 1TB hard drive in to the macbook pro and the first thing it asked me was to initialize it again. I do not want to lose the data I had previously moved across.

In Disk utility it can see the partition but I can not access any of the data.

If anyone has any ideas I would be extremely grateful!

 

[oldscribe]

Hi,

Possibly start up from the Mac OS X Install Disc 1 that came with your computer.

 

[Kaveman]

I would have just plugged the 2 Macs together via Ethernet and copied the files across. YMMV.