Re: formatting a my passport western digital hard drive

2011-08-22 Thread Jon Cohn
Then you should check the warranty status. On Aug 21, 2011, at 9:24 PM, krystal watson wrote: > thanks but its dead there is no hope of saving it > On 22/08/2011, at 11:14 AM, Jon Cohn wrote: > >> These drives are a bit of a pain... I got one on a 2010 December special. >> >> THere is a seco

Re: formatting a my passport western digital hard drive

2011-08-21 Thread krystal watson
thanks but its dead there is no hope of saving it On 22/08/2011, at 11:14 AM, Jon Cohn wrote: > These drives are a bit of a pain... I got one on a 2010 December special. > > THere is a second partition that is not really quite there called a virtual > CD... I found that there were newer ver

Re: formatting a my passport western digital hard drive

2011-08-21 Thread Jon Cohn
These drives are a bit of a pain... I got one on a 2010 December special. THere is a second partition that is not really quite there called a virtual CD... I found that there were newer versions of the software on the WD web site, and downloaded them. The Virtual CD has a control panel that

Re: formatting a my passport western digital hard drive

2011-08-20 Thread Sarah Alawami
Ok. Don't verify at the root of the drive. very at the drive name,, example jane doe's music drive lol! If it is dimmed? I don't know. I'm hoping someone with more smarts when I can help you. I don't think the drive is dead and I'm sure hoping not. Take care. On Aug 20, 2011, at 11:11 PM, krys

Re: formatting a my passport western digital hard drive

2011-08-20 Thread krystal watson
verify is dimmed sad smiley On 21/08/2011, at 12:14 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Hmm Can you do a verify disk on that drive to make sure it is not completely > dead? > > Good luck. > On Aug 20, 2011, at 6:00 PM, krystal watson wrote: > >> the error i was getting said can not format last block of

Re: formatting a my passport western digital hard drive

2011-08-20 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hmm Can you do a verify disk on that drive to make sure it is not completely dead? Good luck. On Aug 20, 2011, at 6:00 PM, krystal watson wrote: > the error i was getting said can not format last block of the device i don't > understand this error message then afterwards the mac froze up and it

Re: formatting a my passport western digital hard drive

2011-08-20 Thread krystal watson
the error i was getting said can not format last block of the device i don't understand this error message then afterwards the mac froze up and it took several restarts to get it to boot was very scary On 21/08/2011, at 7:41 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Were you formatting the top section where i

Re: formatting a my passport western digital hard drive

2011-08-20 Thread Sarah Alawami
Were you formatting the top section where it says expanded or the drive name. if the former ou need to go down one row int he disk utility and format the drive name to mac osx exdented journaled. if that is what you want to do. On Aug 20, 2011, at 1:45 PM, krystal watson wrote: > i tried to form