My new external drive won't mount. 
I bought an external drive off ebay. 300 gigs of sweetness. I backed up my powerbook's harddrive, re-installed the OS for the first time since jaguar, and copied back some of my data (music, and pretty much nothing else).
meanwhile, I plugged it in to my 10 month old PC, who's only job until now was to hold my movies. The PC had a bit of a time copying the movies to the drive, but I blamed that on being a PC.
Ok, so, after that, I copy my Documents folder over, only to get hit with tons of I/O errors (as shown in system.log). I try a day later, 2 days later, etc.. won't work. It'll take about 4 hours attempting to copy, before it just gives up and copies nothing.
During these attempts, the whole system is useless. I can't do anything, because some low-level I/O is waiting for a timeout, so I just turn off the drive. OSX returns to normal, etc, etc and I carry out that task.
But, now, when I plug the drive back in - it won't mount. In fact, Disk Utility will sit there with a spinning cursor indefinitely, up until the point where I turn off the drive. Then, it shows my drives, and surprisingly, a ghost of a drive in question, as any operations on that drive fail (the drive is, in fact, off)
How do you get OSX to recognize this crappy drive so I can at least reformat it or something.
(and, PS, after copying the movies off and shutting down the PC, it won't boot either. It's harddrive makes a scary noise as soon as it's accessed, and it reboots, over and over and over... it sucks)
I bought an external drive off ebay. 300 gigs of sweetness. I backed up my powerbook's harddrive, re-installed the OS for the first time since jaguar, and copied back some of my data (music, and pretty much nothing else).
meanwhile, I plugged it in to my 10 month old PC, who's only job until now was to hold my movies. The PC had a bit of a time copying the movies to the drive, but I blamed that on being a PC.
Ok, so, after that, I copy my Documents folder over, only to get hit with tons of I/O errors (as shown in system.log). I try a day later, 2 days later, etc.. won't work. It'll take about 4 hours attempting to copy, before it just gives up and copies nothing.
During these attempts, the whole system is useless. I can't do anything, because some low-level I/O is waiting for a timeout, so I just turn off the drive. OSX returns to normal, etc, etc and I carry out that task.
But, now, when I plug the drive back in - it won't mount. In fact, Disk Utility will sit there with a spinning cursor indefinitely, up until the point where I turn off the drive. Then, it shows my drives, and surprisingly, a ghost of a drive in question, as any operations on that drive fail (the drive is, in fact, off)
How do you get OSX to recognize this crappy drive so I can at least reformat it or something.
(and, PS, after copying the movies off and shutting down the PC, it won't boot either. It's harddrive makes a scary noise as soon as it's accessed, and it reboots, over and over and over... it sucks)