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>
