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#1 2008-09-02 4:40 pm
- davidcushworth
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Hard drive woes
I had a Western Digital Network Hard Drive. I was accessing it using SMB, never did reformat it to Mac. The cooling system went and the drive started to over heat and shut down. So I pulled the hard drive out and put it into one of the nice little adapters you can get so you can connect Drives to your computer. The trouble is I cannot access the files on the drive. Disk Utility shows it is partitioned etc and formatted for Windows. It will not mount. How o how do I get into it - its got all my downloaded iTunes TV shows & movies on it.
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#2 2008-09-06 3:45 pm
- Nefarious
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Re: Hard drive woes
I can only guess that you need to find a Windows machine to network to.
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#3 2008-09-06 3:59 pm
- dvpierce
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Re: Hard drive woes
You may need a windows machine, if it's NTFS. If you're lucky, a disk utility will make it work again - just some corruption keeping it from mounting.
If you're less lucky, the drive is more or less dead. hat's it's SMART status?
"Now commences the process of cutting off the head, which generally takes from an hour to an hour and a half by an expert workman with a sharp blade." -Reuben Delano, Wanderings and Adventures
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#4 2008-09-06 6:52 pm
- davidcushworth
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Re: Hard drive woes
Turns out that they are LINUX formatted. So I downloaded Ubunutu and set it up in Parallels, troubles is that Ubunutu couldn't make contact with the drive. How do you get Leopard to talk to a Linux Drive?
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