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happened2behere

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Nov 25, 2009
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Hi,

Everytime I try to click on my external hard drive it closes the window. I have two identical WD MyBook 250GB drives. Both are FAT 32 formatted. I can access one of them fine from my Macbook. The other displays its icon, but as soon as I click on it, it opens a window, then closes it again. I can access the drive via a PC.

I purchased a replacement hard drive (LaCie mobile disk 500GB) which worked fine until I transferred the data at which point the same thing started happening with the new drive. I ran a Bit Defender scan on the hard drive and the only thing that turned up was an "Exploit.PDF-JS.Gen" file buried inside Adobe Acrobat. Bit Defender couldn't quarantine or disinfect the file so I deleted the copy of Acrobat but the drive still won't mount.
I have a Macbook running OS X 10.4.11 and a 2 Ghz Intel processor.

Has anyone run into this before? Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,
D
 

Fishrrman

macrumors Penryn
Feb 20, 2009
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If the drive is "Mac only" (i.e., you intend to connect it only to Macs, and never to PC's), why not use Disk Utility to re-initialize it to the Mac OS?

- John
 
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