Hi everyone,i,m new here,and am trying to navigate my way around a forum,i hope this is the right place though to post this.
7 days ago i bought a Toshiba 1.5 terabyte external hard drive, the box says "vista compatible and now with McAfee anti virus enabled" but i figured no matter i,m sure i can just erase and reformat,the guys at the iStore told me that as long as i,m not transporting it around it should be fine but the Toshiba,s can be tempremental if being moved around all the time but seeing as though i knew it was gonna be used purely to store media files i wouldn,t be moving it around so i got it,reformatted it and it worked perfectly for 5 days when suddenly the icon on my screen disappeared,so i figured maybe its just a restart needed and tried again but still nothing! i tried absolutely everything,Disk utility wouldn,t even pick it up and i thought i,d lost it all so took it back to the iStore and they plugged it into 3 different macs which all picked it up perfectly,long story short i had to go home and bring my whole mac in for them to look at,then,when they plugged it in to the same 3 macs again only one picked it not all 3 which left them all stumped! There recommendation was i try change the actual casing but come on,its 5 days old!! so off to my friends house,his mac picked it up fine,we backed up all the media files over night and he reformatted it again,i was quite hopeful last night but once again,NOTHING,so i yanked the usb cable out the port and that warning pop up appears "YOU HAVE NOT EJECTED THE DEVICE PROPERLY BLA BLA BLA" so now i,m like what there,s hope! back in again and i get this message" THIS DEVICE IS UNREADABLE bla bla bla" and has 3 options, Initialize,Continue and Ignore,so i clicked initialize and open disk utility where its showing buy ghosted out kinda,verify disk grayed out,repair disk grayed out...WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!??!?!?!!? please help me,thankyou in advance
7 days ago i bought a Toshiba 1.5 terabyte external hard drive, the box says "vista compatible and now with McAfee anti virus enabled" but i figured no matter i,m sure i can just erase and reformat,the guys at the iStore told me that as long as i,m not transporting it around it should be fine but the Toshiba,s can be tempremental if being moved around all the time but seeing as though i knew it was gonna be used purely to store media files i wouldn,t be moving it around so i got it,reformatted it and it worked perfectly for 5 days when suddenly the icon on my screen disappeared,so i figured maybe its just a restart needed and tried again but still nothing! i tried absolutely everything,Disk utility wouldn,t even pick it up and i thought i,d lost it all so took it back to the iStore and they plugged it into 3 different macs which all picked it up perfectly,long story short i had to go home and bring my whole mac in for them to look at,then,when they plugged it in to the same 3 macs again only one picked it not all 3 which left them all stumped! There recommendation was i try change the actual casing but come on,its 5 days old!! so off to my friends house,his mac picked it up fine,we backed up all the media files over night and he reformatted it again,i was quite hopeful last night but once again,NOTHING,so i yanked the usb cable out the port and that warning pop up appears "YOU HAVE NOT EJECTED THE DEVICE PROPERLY BLA BLA BLA" so now i,m like what there,s hope! back in again and i get this message" THIS DEVICE IS UNREADABLE bla bla bla" and has 3 options, Initialize,Continue and Ignore,so i clicked initialize and open disk utility where its showing buy ghosted out kinda,verify disk grayed out,repair disk grayed out...WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!??!?!?!!? please help me,thankyou in advance
