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Hi All,
Since upgrading to Leopard, my Iomega 500GB External Hard Drive has been operating dog slow. Right now it reports that copying my 5.8GB's worth of data back to my MBP's internal drive will take >90 hours.
I ran a disk utility yesterday, and it took forever to complete. I finally went to bed after the 10th hour, and woke up to this image greeting me:
I'm not sure how the utility can think everything is OK with the disk...
Anyway, I'm not sure what to do next. Is this indicative of a hardware failure? Should I send the drive back to the manufacturer (it's less than 90 days old)? Erase and reformat? Might it be a problem caused by my Leopard upgrade (it worked great with Tiger)? Can I ever trust this drive with my data again? Can I get my data off without waiting for a 5 day copy?
Thanks in advance for your replies.
J
Since upgrading to Leopard, my Iomega 500GB External Hard Drive has been operating dog slow. Right now it reports that copying my 5.8GB's worth of data back to my MBP's internal drive will take >90 hours.
I ran a disk utility yesterday, and it took forever to complete. I finally went to bed after the 10th hour, and woke up to this image greeting me:
I'm not sure how the utility can think everything is OK with the disk...
Anyway, I'm not sure what to do next. Is this indicative of a hardware failure? Should I send the drive back to the manufacturer (it's less than 90 days old)? Erase and reformat? Might it be a problem caused by my Leopard upgrade (it worked great with Tiger)? Can I ever trust this drive with my data again? Can I get my data off without waiting for a 5 day copy?
Thanks in advance for your replies.
J