I am desperate about a huge problem.
A few months ago, a WD external harddrive, which was only one year old, stopped being recognized by any of my computers. I used it on a MacBook, and on a Windows PC. The first one just didn’t react to it at all, the second one indicated that its “unformatted”... But there’s 500 GB of data on it!
I tried with other computers, no result. Then I turned to data recovery software. However, the only thing that such software was able to do, was recovering the data without their filenames or folder structure. That means you get 500 GB of files, named “File00001, File00002, etc.”, which is pretty useless.
After having bought 2 new ADATA harddrives, I started backing up my stuff on them. However, today my Mac didn’t recognize one of them. It just wouldn’t appear in the finder. I unplugged it (what else can you do? there’s no way of ejecting it first) and put it back in. No result. When I tried to restart the MacBook, it got stuck in the shutting down process. This I had experienced before, when the WD drive was failing! I unplugged the harddrive again, and then force-shut down the MacBook.
Now the ADATA drive seems to have gone the same way: when I plug it into my Windows PC it says: “Format drive?” – NOOOO!!!!
Both ADATA drives are formatted NTFS, and I installed Tuxera to be able to read them on the Mac. The WD drive was formatted, I believe, as FAT32.
Now, the story doesn’t end. I’m in the middle of this, looking for help on forums and the like. One of the things I read is that I can try to repair it several times in Disk Utility. When I go to Disk Utility, the drive is visible, but nothing can be done. One recommendation of Disk Utility is: if repair doesn’t work, try restart from your OS X Install DVD.
Well, I put in the original OS X 10.5.5 DVD, and guess what? It’s not recognized. It’s ejected repeatedly. Then I tried a brand new Snow Leopard Install DVD, which I purchased just a few days ago. This one’s ejected too!!! It’s not a problem with the hardware, because he does accept other CD’s and DVD’s...
I’m desperate now... if anyone has advice on any of the above problems, I would be very grateful...
A few months ago, a WD external harddrive, which was only one year old, stopped being recognized by any of my computers. I used it on a MacBook, and on a Windows PC. The first one just didn’t react to it at all, the second one indicated that its “unformatted”... But there’s 500 GB of data on it!
I tried with other computers, no result. Then I turned to data recovery software. However, the only thing that such software was able to do, was recovering the data without their filenames or folder structure. That means you get 500 GB of files, named “File00001, File00002, etc.”, which is pretty useless.
After having bought 2 new ADATA harddrives, I started backing up my stuff on them. However, today my Mac didn’t recognize one of them. It just wouldn’t appear in the finder. I unplugged it (what else can you do? there’s no way of ejecting it first) and put it back in. No result. When I tried to restart the MacBook, it got stuck in the shutting down process. This I had experienced before, when the WD drive was failing! I unplugged the harddrive again, and then force-shut down the MacBook.
Now the ADATA drive seems to have gone the same way: when I plug it into my Windows PC it says: “Format drive?” – NOOOO!!!!
Both ADATA drives are formatted NTFS, and I installed Tuxera to be able to read them on the Mac. The WD drive was formatted, I believe, as FAT32.
Now, the story doesn’t end. I’m in the middle of this, looking for help on forums and the like. One of the things I read is that I can try to repair it several times in Disk Utility. When I go to Disk Utility, the drive is visible, but nothing can be done. One recommendation of Disk Utility is: if repair doesn’t work, try restart from your OS X Install DVD.
Well, I put in the original OS X 10.5.5 DVD, and guess what? It’s not recognized. It’s ejected repeatedly. Then I tried a brand new Snow Leopard Install DVD, which I purchased just a few days ago. This one’s ejected too!!! It’s not a problem with the hardware, because he does accept other CD’s and DVD’s...
I’m desperate now... if anyone has advice on any of the above problems, I would be very grateful...