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Hi, Just got back in to macs yay! they are the best. Anyway, I have a netstore 3500 packard bell external hard drive. I can access it either via ftp or smb no problem. My son has a PC and uses it too, but his pc has the drive mapped I cant seem to do this on the mac. I want to use it to...

With great humiliation I admit defeat. I can not, for the life of me, open my external hard drive attached to my Mac Mini (Tiger 10.11). Been working fine for about a year. It is a 500GB USB driven OneTouch and has about 300Gb of work saved on it. Suddenly, no drive appears on my Desktop...

Hello I was wondering if there is such a thing as a external dvd burner with light scribe for my mac ibook g4? for some reason my interal dvd burner does not print the actual file on the discs.

I'm sorry if this is somewhere in the forums already. I couldn't find it in here or through google. This scenario just started recently... I mount an external hard drive (mine, my roommates, seems to be any(mac journaled, fat 32)) and my macbook (current on all software updates)...

I tried to use my WD 320gb disk with time machine, while the information was being recorded my lapton run out of power and shut down. Now I´m unable to use the external disk, it appers on the desktop but I cannot eject it (because the computer says the disk is being used) I cannot repair it or...

Hi everyone, Does anybody know of a company who makes external hard drive enclosure in the same design as a Apple Time Capsule. I have seen some for the mac mini but not been able to find any looking like a Time Capsule. Thanks in advance.

For some reason, a few people I know think that is is 'bad for the hard drive' to move it around, e.g. from room to room. Can anyone confirm/deny this? Doesn't seem very logical to me.

I have an external FW drive on my intel iMac, OSX 10.5 I was using Lightroom and accessing some images. The drive started making a kachunk, kachunk, kachunk sound. I eventualy restarted the system. Took a long time to mount on the desktop. It's still kachunking away as the file directory...

I recently bought an external hard drive that claims to be OSX compatible, but when i plug it into the usb, it isnt being recognized. Im new to mac, so there may be something im missing. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Macbook Pro 17" Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz. Following a logic board replacement for a separate issue. I have two external Firewire 800 Hard drives (two separate brands and sizes) which have suddenly started unmounting randomly and giving the 'hardware removal error'. A few seconds after unmounting...

New to iMac. This LG was recommended to me as an external rewriter that is compatible with iMac OS X (version 10.5.6). iMac shows it is listed in Hardware Overview and Under Disk Utility, but I am unable to access it. The software didn't seem to download from the accompanying CD. When I try...

I switched to Mac last year. I now own a MacBook and I am loving it. But I am experiencing a problem. My drive is only 80GB and it is near capacity. I have an external drive and I drag and drop files to the external in order to make room on my HD. The problem occurs when I open the files on...

I just bought and Airport Extreme Basestation from Bestbuy a few weeks ago. It works fine, and I just now got my 320GB Western Digital My Passport external drive hooked up and able to be used with Time Machine. I already had backups on that drive, and when I went to try to back up, it wanted to...

Hi guys & gals. I know its annoying when a newbie's first post is asking for help but i don't really have many other alternatives. I've ben searching & reading through many threads on this and other forums regarding my issue and have decided to just plain ask for help as i can't seem to find...

Hi, I am a newbie and need some help. We have an imac G5 and I think the cd drive has died...it just keeps spitting out the discs or does not recognize the disc. From reading the forum posts here, it appears the best solution for me may be to buy an external cd/dvd burner. I went to newegg...

I just got the black cherry hard drive, and I moved my itunes library, and everything was working fine. I figured I had a day to back it up to dvd. When I came back thismorning, it's not being recognized by the computer. I ran a repair on the disk utility, and it says there's an error at the end...

My iBook hard drive suddenly refused to boot up in Fall of '07. There was (and, to some extent, still is) some data I hadn't had the chance to back up, so rather than wiping it clean and/or getting a new one from apple, I just put it in a crate and set it aside until I had time to deal with it...

I installed MacDrive on a windows machine, and hooked up my mac formatted harddrive to transfer over some files. During the transfer, the power cable to the harddrive got disconnected. When I tried plugging it back into the Mac, it would only show up in disk utility, but i could not repair or...

Thats what im trying to connect (a 2.5"HD to my PowerBook G4) but apparently one usb port isnt enough to power my 2.5"HD. The Y cable the 2.5" enclosure comes with cannot connect to the one extra usb port cause its on the other side and it cant reach. What can i do, any ideas? A USB hub? Has...

Hello, I just got an external LaCie hard drive with FireWire 400 to use when the HD in my iBook G4 dies (any moment now...). But now I'm wondering if I can use the LaCie as the main drive (boot from it, install Leopard on it) or was it built to handle just occasional back ups? Thanks!