Apple powermac g3 blue.white Service Manual

 

 Troubleshooting

General/HFS Plus Formatted Drives - 26

 

Some Power Macintosh G3 computers ship with hard drives that 

are formatted with HFS and some later models ship with hard 

drives that are formatted with HFS Plus (also referred to as Mac 

OS Extended format). The hard drives in the Power Macintosh G3 

(Blue and White) and all Macintosh Server G3 computers are 

formatted with HFS Plus. 

Norton Utilities version 3.5 is not compatible with HFS Plus (or 

Mac OS Extended format), and in fact, can destroy data on the hard 

drive. Norton Utilities version 3.5.3 or 3.5.2 will not attempt to 

repair a drive formatted with Mac OS Extended format and 

versions 3.5.1 and earlier cannot recognize that a hard drive is in 

Mac OS Extended format and can result in hard drive corruption 

and loss of all data on the drive. 

 

 When diagnosing hard drive problems, it is important to