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>
