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Hi,
I have an iMac 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo running OS X 10.6.8. I've been using an ADATA CH94 500GB external hard drive for drag-and-drop backup of my applications and documents folders. It's worked fine. True plug-and-play functionality. But the drag-and-drop method takes about six hours over my USB. So I wanted to switch to using Time Machine for the backups, but Time Machine says that 500GB isn't big enough for it to have elbow room to work. (Hmm... Time Machine must have really big elbows, because I have plenty of room left for my old drag-and-drop method.)
So I upgraded to an ADATA NH03 1.5 TB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive ANH03-1TU3-CBK. This drive runs off house current instead of the USB on my computer like the other one. The blue power light comes on, and I feel it running when I lay my hand on it. Fairly quiet. PROBLEM: when I plug it in, the iMac doesn't recognize it at all. No error messages or anything. Disk Utility is blind to it. Apple menu "About Mac" details also blind to it.
I called ADATA, and the Tech person told me the drive is NTFS, to reformat it with a PC to FAT32. Don't have access to a PC, so that doesn't help. But I suspect my 500GB drive was formatted the same, and it works fine. He then suggested that maybe Apple has a limitation on external HD sizes. Frankly, that sounded silly, since plenty of Mac users have larger external HDs than mine. And the comments section on Amazon (where I got this drive) included happy iMac users.
So... does anyone here have experience with this drive, or similar issues with another drive and know the solution? I really want it to work.
Thanks!
I have an iMac 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo running OS X 10.6.8. I've been using an ADATA CH94 500GB external hard drive for drag-and-drop backup of my applications and documents folders. It's worked fine. True plug-and-play functionality. But the drag-and-drop method takes about six hours over my USB. So I wanted to switch to using Time Machine for the backups, but Time Machine says that 500GB isn't big enough for it to have elbow room to work. (Hmm... Time Machine must have really big elbows, because I have plenty of room left for my old drag-and-drop method.)
So I upgraded to an ADATA NH03 1.5 TB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive ANH03-1TU3-CBK. This drive runs off house current instead of the USB on my computer like the other one. The blue power light comes on, and I feel it running when I lay my hand on it. Fairly quiet. PROBLEM: when I plug it in, the iMac doesn't recognize it at all. No error messages or anything. Disk Utility is blind to it. Apple menu "About Mac" details also blind to it.
I called ADATA, and the Tech person told me the drive is NTFS, to reformat it with a PC to FAT32. Don't have access to a PC, so that doesn't help. But I suspect my 500GB drive was formatted the same, and it works fine. He then suggested that maybe Apple has a limitation on external HD sizes. Frankly, that sounded silly, since plenty of Mac users have larger external HDs than mine. And the comments section on Amazon (where I got this drive) included happy iMac users.
So... does anyone here have experience with this drive, or similar issues with another drive and know the solution? I really want it to work.
Thanks!