MAC Re: Western Digital external hard drive help

2004-02-09 Thread James G \"Jim\" Hardwick
20040210 First thing to do is take it back to the store and ask for a replacement (they're usually more willing to replace than refund). If that doesn't work then you could try finding a program to low-level it. I don't know of any such programs on the Mac but if you have a friend with a PC then a

Re: Western Digital external hard drive help

2004-01-30 Thread Robin Ashe
First thing to do is take it back to the store and ask for a replacement (they're usually more willing to replace than refund). If that doesn't work then you could try finding a program to low-level it. I don't know of any such programs on the Mac but if you have a friend with a PC then a program l

Re: Western Digital external hard drive help

2004-01-30 Thread Kris McGrath
>In OSZ they still do not appear. > >What on earth should I do? > Well, first of all, I would check that OS ;) Kidding aside, it sounds to me like you got a defective drive. Try it on another machine, if you have one available, and if you continue to have problems, return it. Remember that bad

Western Digital external hard drive help

2004-01-30 Thread chueewowee
Hi, I've a new Western Digital extermal firewire disk. It isn't recognsed and doesn't mount in OSX. However it was recognized at first but my attempt at disk utilities partition failed (it hung). SInce then no recognition, nor by Disc Utility. I OS9 Tech Tool recognised two three of the partiti