Hi there
I have 5 external hard drives, which I purchased over time, for my 4-5 year old Toshiba laptop but only 1 out of the 5 is being accepted by my MacBook.
2 are Seagate (USB) 320GB drives (identical models);
2 are Iomega (USB and firewire) 500GB drives (identical models);
1 is an Laice (USB) 1TB drive.
All the drives are formatted to NTFS and connect to my Toshiba laptop without any problems.
However when I plug them into my newly purchased MacBook the following occurs:
1 of the 2 Seagate drives connect without any problems;
The other Seagate drive appears in disk utility greyed out and Snow Leopard says it cannot mount it;
The 2 Iomega drives appear in disk utility greyed out and Snow Leopard says it cannot mount them;
The 1 Laice drive appears in disk utility and Snow Leopard brings up an error message saying there is an error with the disk and it needs to be repaired.
Has anyone had a similar problem to this or have any ideas as to why this might be occurring? Clearly I'm not going to repair the Laice disk in case it corrupts the data on it. I did a search through the forums but couldn't see anything to help me resolve the problem but I may have missed something.
I can't format the drives as they contain too much data across them. I'm intending to install MacFuse and ntfs-3g.
Thank you for reading
Infobleep
I have 5 external hard drives, which I purchased over time, for my 4-5 year old Toshiba laptop but only 1 out of the 5 is being accepted by my MacBook.
2 are Seagate (USB) 320GB drives (identical models);
2 are Iomega (USB and firewire) 500GB drives (identical models);
1 is an Laice (USB) 1TB drive.
All the drives are formatted to NTFS and connect to my Toshiba laptop without any problems.
However when I plug them into my newly purchased MacBook the following occurs:
1 of the 2 Seagate drives connect without any problems;
The other Seagate drive appears in disk utility greyed out and Snow Leopard says it cannot mount it;
The 2 Iomega drives appear in disk utility greyed out and Snow Leopard says it cannot mount them;
The 1 Laice drive appears in disk utility and Snow Leopard brings up an error message saying there is an error with the disk and it needs to be repaired.
Has anyone had a similar problem to this or have any ideas as to why this might be occurring? Clearly I'm not going to repair the Laice disk in case it corrupts the data on it. I did a search through the forums but couldn't see anything to help me resolve the problem but I may have missed something.
I can't format the drives as they contain too much data across them. I'm intending to install MacFuse and ntfs-3g.
Thank you for reading
Infobleep