Ext HD not mounting in Panther

I have a WD ext hd that is formatted in OS Extended Journaled. It is partitioned into a time machine half and a regular storage half for movies and music and such. It works perfectly on my macbook running leopard but when i plug it into my imac g3 a message pops up saying i have inserted a disk that contains no volumes that osx can read.
whats goin on?

pikid89 wrote:
I have a WD ext hd that is formatted in OS Extended Journaled. It is partitioned into a time machine half and a regular storage half for movies and music and such.
What OS are you running on the Ext HD?
Did you format it with your MacBook? I'm thinking you must have as you used Time Machine. So the Time Machine half is formatted for an Intel Mac? Just a guess as I don't know which MacBook you have. A G3 will not be able to read an Intel formatted OSX. The G3 is PPC and the MacBook is probably Intel.
It works perfectly on my macbook running leopard but when i plug it into my imac g3 a message pops up saying i have inserted a disk that contains no volumes that osx can read.
That's the other thing, a G3 cannot run Leopard. It's processor is too small. Alot of G4's can't, including mine. What OS are you using on the G3?
Dale

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