Re: Western Digital 1TB drive
Good afternoon Jon and all, Very much like Daniel I have been using WD drives for many years and currently have 10 of them giving me no troubles at all, 2 internal drives and the rest external. However, late last year I purchased a 750Gb WD external with USB FW interfaces and the drive gave me trouble from the very start in that it would sometime mount and at other times there was nothing I could do to mount it. Result was that I could not reformat using Disk Utility, and returned it back. And 3 weeks ago a small 500GB drive, also a WD with FW USB, did the very same thing and was promptly returned to the shop. Must add that for both of those 'faulty' drives I tried both USB and FW with no luck. I am not sure of where the problem lies because in the past 3 years I have been helping friends and family set up their external drives, all being WD which I did recommend they purchase, without any problems. The last one I formatted and set up was a 2 TB triple interface WD, a really good drive. I think that if the drive can be mounted and you can reformat as Daniel advised, then it should not cause any problems, however I tend to suspect something is wrong with it. Good luck, Philippe 2010/7/24 Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au Hi Jon I've also used (and installed) lots of Western Digital drives and they all work well. (Probably close to over a hundred drives easily over the last 2-3 years) And I also use about 7+ Western Digital drives here. All work well. I would try formatting it in Disk Utility and see how it goes. If still the same you can try a zero all data/low level format will sometimes wipe out any bad sectors as well. (Just takes a while). 2. Try Repairing Permissions. Does it still on a particular part of the update? You could try downloading them manually from here http://support.apple.com/downloads/ and then see which ones install and which ones stop. You may then have to remove it from /Receipts and work out which (and why) one is stopping. Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel On 24/7/10 1:05 PM, Vladimir James ink...@bigpond.com wrote: No problems here. Have been using a pair of WD 1 TB for the last year without hassles. Vlad James On 24/07/2010, at 11:32 AM, Jon Davison wrote: Hi everyone. I have two problems, as usual. So I would welcome any suggestions here; 1. Has anyone had any problems with these 1TB WD drives? mine has always done odd things, like crash, freeze the system etc. So now I have wiped the drive in TechTool Pro 4. After getting info, I find this; Capacity: 931.39 GB Available: 513.2 GB Used: 418.19 GB The drive is empty (well it appears so) so am just wondering what is taking up this space? I tried to verify and/or repair in Disk Utility but it says that it cannot unmount the drive. So not sure what is happening. I wanted to erase and reformat the drive to see if it can still be used, but it appears there may be a problem at the root level? Any clues re the above drive? My system is; MacPro 2 x 2.66 GHz dual/2GB/1TB/10.5.1 2. I cannot update the OS software or any other on the above machine. It just stalls, I can wait all day and it does nothing. ps; Thank you Bob for taking the time to look at my 2 x G5's with the RAM problem. The cases are now happy in their new incarnation as letter boxes! Thanks Jon -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- J Philippe Chaperon Perth, Australie Occidentale -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Western Digital 1TB drive
Hi Daniel Jon, This is the same machine that Jon has had problems with before. Back on 19-03-2010 Subject: Emptying Trash, When he messed up deleting files from Time Machine backup drive it was thereby corrupted. His second question then was: 2. I can't seem to do an update to the software, say to 10.5.8. Software Update just sticks and does nothing. Then in May 18-05-2010 Subject: Locked volume, when Jon said: I recently inserted a 232 Gb drive from my old G5, into my Mac Pro. It mounts on the desktop okay but it has a visible padlock on the drive icon. It will not open as I '...do not have sufficient privileges' I have also tried to change the privilege settings via 'Get Info' to no avail. I don't think the problem is with the 1TB Western Digital drive, like you I have used WD Drives and recommended installed for many clients, all have worked perfectly. One thing I would suggest is Jon attach the WD Drive to the MacPro and then check his Trash to see if the 418.19GB shows in the trash, if so 'Empty The Trash' BEFORE he disconnects the WD Drive. Whatever the outcome, the WD Drive needs to be erased and partitioned correctly in Disk Utility as you have mentioned before. I feel he probably requires either an 'Erase Install' (but I doubt he has a good backup) or someone … perhaps you Daniel ;-) to have a good look at his machine. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 24/07/2010, at 1:17 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Jon I've also used (and installed) lots of Western Digital drives and they all work well. (Probably close to over a hundred drives easily over the last 2-3 years) And I also use about 7+ Western Digital drives here. All work well. I would try formatting it in Disk Utility and see how it goes. If still the same you can try a zero all data/low level format will sometimes wipe out any bad sectors as well. (Just takes a while). 2. Try Repairing Permissions. Does it still on a particular part of the update? You could try downloading them manually from here http://support.apple.com/downloads/ and then see which ones install and which ones stop. You may then have to remove it from /Receipts and work out which (and why) one is stopping. Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel On 24/7/10 1:05 PM, Vladimir James ink...@bigpond.com wrote: No problems here. Have been using a pair of WD 1 TB for the last year without hassles. Vlad James On 24/07/2010, at 11:32 AM, Jon Davison wrote: Hi everyone. I have two problems, as usual. So I would welcome any suggestions here; 1. Has anyone had any problems with these 1TB WD drives? mine has always done odd things, like crash, freeze the system etc. So now I have wiped the drive in TechTool Pro 4. After getting info, I find this; Capacity: 931.39 GB Available: 513.2 GB Used: 418.19 GB The drive is empty (well it appears so) so am just wondering what is taking up this space? I tried to verify and/or repair in Disk Utility but it says that it cannot unmount the drive. So not sure what is happening. I wanted to erase and reformat the drive to see if it can still be used, but it appears there may be a problem at the root level? Any clues re the above drive? My system is; MacPro 2 x 2.66 GHz dual/2GB/1TB/10.5.1 2. I cannot update the OS software or any other on the above machine. It just stalls, I can wait all day and it does nothing. ps; Thank you Bob for taking the time to look at my 2 x G5's with the RAM problem. The cases are now happy in their new incarnation as letter boxes! Thanks Jon -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Western Digital 1TB drive
the WD drives have a nasty feature called sleep that's what they like to do, if there is no acces within a few minutes after the last access then the drive goes to sleep depending on the firewire setup you may not be able to wake it up i have 2 WD books which behave in that way, but if its at sleep i click onto a file in it (window opened before sleep) then it takes approx 10s to get a response, if i'm correct the included software should be able to change the sleep settings, i don't dare to install the wd software on a allready partially filled drive, so i'm not sure if that works James On 24/07/2010, at 11:32, Jon Davison wrote: Hi everyone. I have two problems, as usual. So I would welcome any suggestions here; 1. Has anyone had any problems with these 1TB WD drives? mine has always done odd things, like crash, freeze the system etc. So now I have wiped the drive in TechTool Pro 4. After getting info, I find this; Capacity: 931.39 GB Available: 513.2 GB Used: 418.19 GB The drive is empty (well it appears so) so am just wondering what is taking up this space? I tried to verify and/or repair in Disk Utility but it says that it cannot unmount the drive. So not sure what is happening. I wanted to erase and reformat the drive to see if it can still be used, but it appears there may be a problem at the root level? Any clues re the above drive? My system is; MacPro 2 x 2.66 GHz dual/2GB/1TB/10.5.1 2. I cannot update the OS software or any other on the above machine. It just stalls, I can wait all day and it does nothing. ps; Thank you Bob for taking the time to look at my 2 x G5's with the RAM problem. The cases are now happy in their new incarnation as letter boxes! Thanks Jon 'ROBBIE II - Further adventures with Robinson Helicopters' A new coffee-table book from Eye in the Sky Productions. Unit 5 / 78 Marine Tce, Fremantle Western Australia 6160 Photographed by aviation photographers Jon Davison and Alexis Bachofen. T: 08 94335541 M: 0403 235938 E: j...@eyeinthesky.com.au http://www.robbiebook.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas skype: barleeway over 40 years in electronics -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Western Digital 1TB drive
Hi everyone. I have two problems, as usual. So I would welcome any suggestions here; 1. Has anyone had any problems with these 1TB WD drives? mine has always done odd things, like crash, freeze the system etc. So now I have wiped the drive in TechTool Pro 4. After getting info, I find this; Capacity: 931.39 GB Available: 513.2 GB Used: 418.19 GB The drive is empty (well it appears so) so am just wondering what is taking up this space? I tried to verify and/or repair in Disk Utility but it says that it cannot unmount the drive. So not sure what is happening. I wanted to erase and reformat the drive to see if it can still be used, but it appears there may be a problem at the root level? Any clues re the above drive? My system is; MacPro 2 x 2.66 GHz dual/2GB/1TB/10.5.1 2. I cannot update the OS software or any other on the above machine. It just stalls, I can wait all day and it does nothing. ps; Thank you Bob for taking the time to look at my 2 x G5's with the RAM problem. The cases are now happy in their new incarnation as letter boxes! Thanks Jon 'ROBBIE II - Further adventures with Robinson Helicopters' A new coffee-table book from Eye in the Sky Productions. Unit 5 / 78 Marine Tce, Fremantle Western Australia 6160 Photographed by aviation photographers Jon Davison and Alexis Bachofen. T: 08 94335541 M: 0403 235938 E: j...@eyeinthesky.com.au http://www.robbiebook.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Western Digital 1TB drive
No problems here. Have been using a pair of WD 1 TB for the last year without hassles. Vlad James On 24/07/2010, at 11:32 AM, Jon Davison wrote: Hi everyone. I have two problems, as usual. So I would welcome any suggestions here; 1. Has anyone had any problems with these 1TB WD drives? mine has always done odd things, like crash, freeze the system etc. So now I have wiped the drive in TechTool Pro 4. After getting info, I find this; Capacity: 931.39 GB Available: 513.2 GB Used: 418.19 GB The drive is empty (well it appears so) so am just wondering what is taking up this space? I tried to verify and/or repair in Disk Utility but it says that it cannot unmount the drive. So not sure what is happening. I wanted to erase and reformat the drive to see if it can still be used, but it appears there may be a problem at the root level? Any clues re the above drive? My system is; MacPro 2 x 2.66 GHz dual/2GB/1TB/10.5.1 2. I cannot update the OS software or any other on the above machine. It just stalls, I can wait all day and it does nothing. ps; Thank you Bob for taking the time to look at my 2 x G5's with the RAM problem. The cases are now happy in their new incarnation as letter boxes! Thanks Jon -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Western Digital 1TB drive
Hi Jon I've also used (and installed) lots of Western Digital drives and they all work well. (Probably close to over a hundred drives easily over the last 2-3 years) And I also use about 7+ Western Digital drives here. All work well. I would try formatting it in Disk Utility and see how it goes. If still the same you can try a zero all data/low level format will sometimes wipe out any bad sectors as well. (Just takes a while). 2. Try Repairing Permissions. Does it still on a particular part of the update? You could try downloading them manually from here http://support.apple.com/downloads/ and then see which ones install and which ones stop. You may then have to remove it from /Receipts and work out which (and why) one is stopping. Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel On 24/7/10 1:05 PM, Vladimir James ink...@bigpond.com wrote: No problems here. Have been using a pair of WD 1 TB for the last year without hassles. Vlad James On 24/07/2010, at 11:32 AM, Jon Davison wrote: Hi everyone. I have two problems, as usual. So I would welcome any suggestions here; 1. Has anyone had any problems with these 1TB WD drives? mine has always done odd things, like crash, freeze the system etc. So now I have wiped the drive in TechTool Pro 4. After getting info, I find this; Capacity: 931.39 GB Available: 513.2 GB Used: 418.19 GB The drive is empty (well it appears so) so am just wondering what is taking up this space? I tried to verify and/or repair in Disk Utility but it says that it cannot unmount the drive. So not sure what is happening. I wanted to erase and reformat the drive to see if it can still be used, but it appears there may be a problem at the root level? Any clues re the above drive? My system is; MacPro 2 x 2.66 GHz dual/2GB/1TB/10.5.1 2. I cannot update the OS software or any other on the above machine. It just stalls, I can wait all day and it does nothing. ps; Thank you Bob for taking the time to look at my 2 x G5's with the RAM problem. The cases are now happy in their new incarnation as letter boxes! Thanks Jon -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
