I have a 1 terabyte WD external hard drive, formatted to ExFAT, that I have been using successfully with my Macbook Air for the past year.
Recently any attempt to open the hard drive causes finder to crash repeatedly. It's not plugging the hard drive in that does it, but clicking on the icon to try and open it.
When this happens all icons disappear and a window asking me if I want to "restore windows" pops up. However this window keeps disappearing and reappearing every few seconds as finder repeatedly crashes. The only way to stop the cycle is to shut down the computer and start it again.
In "about this Mac" it seems the OS recognizes the hard drive, and correctly breaks down all the file types. And running "verify" or "repair" in disk utility completes successfully and states there are no problems. Oddly, disk utility does not seem to recognize any files on the hard drive, listing both folders and files as "0", despite correctly recognizing that the hard drive is 80% full.
I plugged the hard drive into a windows xp machine today, it works perfectly, I can see all files and folders, etc. Ran a full virus scan, nothing.
Anyone have any idea what might be causing this?
Much obliged!
Alistair
Recently any attempt to open the hard drive causes finder to crash repeatedly. It's not plugging the hard drive in that does it, but clicking on the icon to try and open it.
When this happens all icons disappear and a window asking me if I want to "restore windows" pops up. However this window keeps disappearing and reappearing every few seconds as finder repeatedly crashes. The only way to stop the cycle is to shut down the computer and start it again.
In "about this Mac" it seems the OS recognizes the hard drive, and correctly breaks down all the file types. And running "verify" or "repair" in disk utility completes successfully and states there are no problems. Oddly, disk utility does not seem to recognize any files on the hard drive, listing both folders and files as "0", despite correctly recognizing that the hard drive is 80% full.
I plugged the hard drive into a windows xp machine today, it works perfectly, I can see all files and folders, etc. Ran a full virus scan, nothing.
Anyone have any idea what might be causing this?
Much obliged!
Alistair