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<blockquote data-quote="DevilDocHudson" data-source="post: 1406547" data-attributes="member: 208727"><p>Help me Obi Wan, you are my only hope.....</p><p>I used to be a PC dude, but I got smart and upgraded to Mac after 10 years of prodding. Here is where I may not be so smart: when switching from a PC to a Mac, I put an internal SATA WD Caviar Green 2 TB inside a Vantec NexStar 3 external hard drive enclosure and I believe I formatted it to FAT32 when I copied all my photos, music and Microsoft Office Documents from my old PC. I plugged in the hard drive, but no dice! It recognizes it in the disk utilities, but says: "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." The Mac Disk Utilities notes the following:</p><p></p><p>Disk Description : WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 Media </p><p>Total Capacity : 2 TB (2,000,398,934,016 Bytes)</p><p>Connection Bus : USB </p><p>Write Status : Read/Write</p><p>Connection Type : External </p><p>S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported</p><p>USB Serial Number : 0010101E40000000 </p><p>Partition Map Scheme : Master Boot Record</p><p></p><p>I am using Mac OS X Version 10.7.3 Build 11D50b using a 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 with 4GB 1333 Mhz DDR3. It uses an AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB Graphics Card. </p><p>What do I do? I contacted Western Digital and they said using an internal hard drive in an external enclosure is not a good idea and isn't covered by warranty. Duh! I just asked him why it can't be read....he gave me some BS answer that has nothing to do with the reading error. Hellllllllllp.....it has all my family pictures!</p><p><img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Crying.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":'(" title="Crying :'(" data-shortname=":'(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DevilDocHudson, post: 1406547, member: 208727"] Help me Obi Wan, you are my only hope..... I used to be a PC dude, but I got smart and upgraded to Mac after 10 years of prodding. Here is where I may not be so smart: when switching from a PC to a Mac, I put an internal SATA WD Caviar Green 2 TB inside a Vantec NexStar 3 external hard drive enclosure and I believe I formatted it to FAT32 when I copied all my photos, music and Microsoft Office Documents from my old PC. I plugged in the hard drive, but no dice! It recognizes it in the disk utilities, but says: "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." The Mac Disk Utilities notes the following: Disk Description : WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 Media Total Capacity : 2 TB (2,000,398,934,016 Bytes) Connection Bus : USB Write Status : Read/Write Connection Type : External S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported USB Serial Number : 0010101E40000000 Partition Map Scheme : Master Boot Record I am using Mac OS X Version 10.7.3 Build 11D50b using a 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 with 4GB 1333 Mhz DDR3. It uses an AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB Graphics Card. What do I do? I contacted Western Digital and they said using an internal hard drive in an external enclosure is not a good idea and isn't covered by warranty. Duh! I just asked him why it can't be read....he gave me some BS answer that has nothing to do with the reading error. Hellllllllllp.....it has all my family pictures! :'( [/QUOTE]
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