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Newbie dropping by for help. Apologies if I'm in the wrong forum. I have an elderly Q950 with an external hard drive with everything backed up onto it. The external drive is a Micronet ADV1000E, with a sticker on the back saying it's Macintosh or PC compatible. I also have an iBook laptop, & PC...

Hi, i have a problem with my external hard disk. The write performance is very poor. It's an Western Digital MyBook, connected via Firewire to an G4 Yikes (PCI) 400Mhz Powermac. Reading from that disk is fast (16 MB/sec) writing to the disk is below 1MB/sec. I'm running Panther 10.3.9...

Hi there, Last night I encountered a problem with my seagate FreeAgent external HD/D. I right-clicked on the desktop icon to eject it as per usual and once the icon had vanished I pulled out the USB cable. However, I then got a message saying that I didn't eject the device properly and...

Fairly new to Mac and about to ask probably a really obvious question. I have an external hard drive that I was previously using on PC, having attempted to use it on a Mac, it will not write to it. I've found that I have to format to FAT32, which I think i can just about manage (yes, im a...

Hello, I have a Maxtor 3200 that I reformatted to OS X with the help of information on this board. I have been using it to save my music files and photos. It was working great but all of a sudden it will not let me save or transfer any files larger that a simple spreadsheet. Every time I...

Hi, I have an external hard drive (firewire) that I've transferred a lot of my work related stuff to. Now everytime I go to open it, it opens and then crashes immediately. I've tried rebooting several times, with it plugged in and not, and no dice. I'm running OSX Tiger on a MacBook...

So my office is finally cracking down on music stored on our CPUs and they are saying that we can no longer store music on our computer's hard drive or office network. We are, however, allowed to keep iTunes on our computer and run the music from any external device. Ordinarily I would just...

Hey folks, Last night I was running Onyx to perform some maintenance, and the program recognized a problem and told me the startup disk needs repair. I booted up from my OSX install disk, repaired the volume, everything was fine and dandy. Then I booted up from my startup disk and my macbook...

i googled around to try and find the answer but the only thing i can find are users with windows formatted external hd's being readonly on a mac my case is...i have an lacie 160gb external hd i have been using w/my pb g4 for years and i assume it is b/c of the tiger install it is now it is...

mac newbie (and longtime windows user) here...please bear with me, i have a windows-to-mac issue and need some advice! i have a 200 gb maxtor external hard drive that's in ntfs format, meaning that when i plug it into my macbook (running os x 10.5 leopard), the files are read-only (about 40...

Hey guys, I have a 500g AcomData external firewire drive that i use w/ one of my G4's running OS9.2. I have been using the drive for about 3 months with no issues. Yesterday i went to work on some music files, and when i tried to open my session, a bunch of the drums were missing. When i...

Will running the 'repair disk' disk utility on an external drive screw up any of the files on my external hard drive? I only want to run it because I can't transfer a file from my HD to the external...it's a 6 gig video file in quicktime format, and I'm getting 'error 1309', which I...

we can see an external harddrive in disk utilities but not on desktop it's Mounting harddrive S.M.A.R.T status is functioning and its a disarster.

Hi. I need to buy a backup drive, preferably one suitable for TimeMachine, and I checked out energy-efficient drives. Do you think any PORTABLE firewired-powered drive would be energy efficient compared to this USB2 Kanguru Drive at amazon...

I have a Fantom drive with 2 partitions. Smooth sailing until today. One partition mounts on the desktop (_3 shown below) but the other (_2) does not. System Profiler shows it there, but empty?:\ Disk Utility shows it as well, as mounted, but not the right icon, a blank page. icon WHen I...

Wow... been to the rodeo on this one so many times it's ridiculous. My most recent experience involved a very unhelpful employee at a local computer parts store here in San Antonio. "Do you have anything that doesn't look ridiculous? I'm looking for one that doesn't look like it'll protect...

Whilst installing Leopard - and becoming confused about privileges and users - I have managed to lock my LaCie hard drive and installing apps is also a problem now. I have tried everything I know and am completely stuck. You can see the current situation from the screenshot (which has been...

Hi, I have a Smartdisk Crossfire external 160GB hardrive with Firewire + USB 2.0 connections. I would like to get a bigger drive. The cheapest thing to do seems to replace the drive while keeping the enclosure. The only thing is, I can't find any information about what type of drive it is...

Installed Leopard on my Powerbook G4 - all was well until plugged in Passport external hard drive to USB port - just kept clicking and wasn't recognized. Tried my PC and son's Macbook worked fine. The problem? Powered USB ports on G4 are too weak. When I used a self-powered USB hub ...

First, the facts: OS X 10.4.10 Build 8R2232 iMac 2Ghz / 2GB Hard drive: Other World Computers / 2 x 2TB / Raided (software). In fact, here is a link to exactly what I've got: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/ME8MS7S10T64/ I bought the external drive about a year...