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Moving Files Off External Drive
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Hmm, that's odd. The only place I've been able to find that error online is with regard to iPhones.
What is the drive formatted as?
What is the drive formatted as?
Has it ever worked before with that computer? I'm assuming it has worked with other computers or you wouldn't have been able to put files onto it. 
External drive
Never had the problem if the HD is showing in the desktop. Try seeing if you can add some files from your internal to the external and then op@en them or copy them back to the internal. That should at least allow you to see if it is a giles problem or a hardware problem.
Never had the problem if the HD is showing in the desktop. Try seeing if you can add some files from your internal to the external and then op@en them or copy them back to the internal. That should at least allow you to see if it is a giles problem or a hardware problem.
I was able to move files on and off of it. I had moved files originally off my computer onto the external hard drive, deleted the files on the computer. Now it is those that tell me there is an error -1426 when I try to move or copy them onto the computer, but all others are fine..
Have you ran "verifiy Disk" in disk utility?
my experience with bad sectors on a pc internal wasn't good. The drive was failing, and also extremely overheated. Had to put it in the fridge lol
I didn't lose much, just a few corrupted music files which I got back thanks to p2p.