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Greetings, I am experiencing constant setbacks when using my OWC external drive as a video/music storage. My 2008, 24" iMac is in a perfect shape. The External Drive comprise of two, 2TB HDs connected in simple parallel inside the OWC box. Connecting the two with FW-800, or USB-2 brings...

I used an external harddrive (usb 2) formated NTFS which was running fine. I recently bought a new harddrive which is usb 3.0, formated NTFS as well. Now, my new harddrive is very slow. Copying items takes up to four times longer than it used to with usb 2. Why is that? Any ideas?

I just acquired a macbook that is running 10.4.11 and which has a optical drive that no longer reads cds/dvds. I bought an external cd drive in order to load snow leopard but the cd drive does not show up on the desktop. The cd drive is a panasonic which is supposed to be compatible with mac...

New to Mac, intermediate PC user. I'm having an issue where I can't see my Seagate Free Agent in my 2011 MacBook Pro (10.7.4). The drive is NTFS but I'm using Paragon and can write to it, up until the other night I had no problems. I use it to Dj and the place I was at on Friday had two power...

Earlier forum describes flashing internally a Pioneer DVR 110. I am using this model, as an external drive with appropriate USB IDE adapter cable. The current firmware is 1.4.1. Does the same procedure apply ? Thnks

I turn on my ext. HD, connect it to my MacBook Pro with a FireWire 800 cable and the ext. HD icon won't show up on my desktop. I tried different cables and it still won't show up. On the System Profiler application, my ext. HD is recognized as an unknown device when it's connected to a FW port...

Hi, I have a 24 inch imac intel purchased around 2008. I've had my computer freeze up when coming off sleep mode twice now. Each time it tells me to restart the computer and when I do I get the little question mark thing. When I tried to boot from install disk it would not list the hard...

I have a late 2008 aluminum macbook and a 2 TB Western Digital external hard drive that I've been using together for over a year now. There are two partitions on the drive: one 180 GB and one 1.8 TB. They have worked flawlessly for a year+ when I access them about once a week or every 2 weeks...

I have a mac mini 2010 model with snow leopard. I use the mac mini ONLY in my recording studio and just to record music with garageband. I have an external hard drive I want to hook up to the mac mini so I can store my music on it and now use up all my internal hard drive space. Can someone...

Hi, I'm in the market for a big external hard-drive, which I want to use for photographs & digital imaging. Mainly Lightroom Catalogues & Photoshop. Has anyone got any pointers as to what brand of hard-drive to get? I don't mind buying enclosure & drive separately. Or a docking station...

Alright, I've exhausted every means I know of to get this working. I recently acquired an older PPC G5 tower (PowerMac7,2 with the 1.6GHz single core processor). Originally it came with a bad power supply and no graphics card, I replaced the power supply easily and got a new graphics card...

Hi Today i tried to make a time machine copy with my external drive, btu while I was doing it, the system said my drive only had 20GB left and needed at least 130 . The thing is that my esternal drive is 400GB but when i connected to the my laptop I could only see the last copy I had made. I...

Im wanting to connect up 2 external monitors to my standard macbook but am having problems. I have one monitor plugged into the display adaptor out port and i have a usb to dvi adaptor. The monitor plugged in via usb stutters massively i believe due to the connection type not being fast enough...

I got an external hard-drive that doesn't show up on finder. On both Disk Utility and DiskWarrior it keeps mounting and un-mounting. Disk Utility when trying to repair, spits this out when it un-mounts... 2011-07-28 22:43:43 -0700: Problems were encountered during repair of the partition map...

I recently bought a monitor that has 1920 X 1200 resolution. The same as my MacBook Pro. Why is it that icons and windows are bigger in size when I put them up on the external monitor? They are nice and small on my Mac and get a lot larger when I move them over. It seems that they should...

Hi everybody! Problem: My G Technologies external hard drive mounts inconsistently since the Pro Tools session I was working on today crashed. When it does manage to mount my Trash Bin on the dock fills up with trash automatically and this trash cannot be emptied. In addition I have been...

Hi I'm thinking of getting this external Firewire HD to backup an iMac (via Carbon Copy Cloner under Tiger), and wondering whether it can also be used, when partitioned, to back up a Windows (XP Professional) laptop I also use, via USB? It's certainly large enough. Or would the formatting...

First of all, I want to say hello to everyone, as I am new here on the forum, although I'm not a new Mac user. As the title suggests, I made a mistake that "erased" all my files on a backup external hard drive, after splitting a partition in two and installing Mac OS X Leopard on the new...

Hi. I have a Toshiba Canvio External 1TB HD which uses a USB 3.0 Micro B connector. From my experience, this is the worst connector ever invented. I barely touch the cable and it disconnects the HD. It's practically useless unless I have my laptop sitting on a table where the HD won't get...

I recently bought a HP Pocket Media Drive & before i connected it ot my PC (windows XP Pro) I had Read/Write Permission on the HP drive with my PowerBook G4. Afterwards I lost the ability to write to the HP drive from my PowerBook G4. Can anyone give me any idea's on how I can fix the problem.