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Major problems with WD Hard-drive partitioning
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1371540" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>I'm afraid you have us confused as well.....</p><p></p><p>The WD drive was partitioned. Why? You stated upon installing it you were asked to partition it? What asked you to partition it? It wasn't the operating system because it can nicely read the drive whether or not it is partitioned.</p><p></p><p>If the WD was formatted as NTFS, (probably) your Mac can read it but not write to it. Reformatting it to FAT-32 would allow your Mac to read and write to it.</p><p></p><p>If you removed the LaCie before doing any partitioning or formatting, then all your data should still be on the drive. Unless by coincidence the drive failed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1371540, member: 46727"] I'm afraid you have us confused as well..... The WD drive was partitioned. Why? You stated upon installing it you were asked to partition it? What asked you to partition it? It wasn't the operating system because it can nicely read the drive whether or not it is partitioned. If the WD was formatted as NTFS, (probably) your Mac can read it but not write to it. Reformatting it to FAT-32 would allow your Mac to read and write to it. If you removed the LaCie before doing any partitioning or formatting, then all your data should still be on the drive. Unless by coincidence the drive failed. [/QUOTE]
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