George, By the sound of it there’s something going on with the drive, not the OS. If you can’t create a folder perhaps the drive is write-protected, so you can’t do anything to change it, or in the wrong format. Is this a new hard drive? Best, Zack. On Mar 1, 2014, at 11:31 AM, George Cham <george.c...@mac-access.net> wrote:
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