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USB Hard Drive
Name: AndyB Date: November 2, 2002 at 14:49:46 Pacific OS: 9.2.2 CPU/Ram: 333/160
Comment:
I've installed a new hard drive in my iMac and now I can't seem to move files between my USB hard drive and the internal hard drive. I can access the USB files and it checks out ok with Disk First Aid. Any ideas?
Name: the pickle Date: November 2, 2002 at 15:10:01 Pacific
Reply:
What brand hard drive?
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Response Number 2
Name: AndyB Date: November 3, 2002 at 09:32:48 Pacific
Reply:
The internal is a Maxtor 40GB, the USB is a LaCie 20GB. As I did some more investigation, it's only some files and folders that I can't move, so I suspect they are corrupted somehow. Still don't know why I can't run TechTools, which might fix the problem.
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Response Number 3
Name: the pickle Date: November 3, 2002 at 11:19:58 Pacific
Reply:
TechTool doesn't see the drive, or won't repair it?
Is there anything on the drive right now that you can't afford to lose? If so, copy it to the internal and then reformat the external; if not, just reformat the external and see if that helps any. If the files you need are the ones that won't copy, well, yeah, that's what we're working on :)
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Response Number 4
Name: AndyB Date: November 4, 2002 at 11:38:39 Pacific
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TechTool sees it fine but won't repair it - it hangs up at volume structures and doesn't get to file structures. Some files will copy over to the internal, others won't. I think I can still pull those over my LAN to the PC (strange). That may be the solution - to pull the files to the PC then back to the Mac. Weird but true.
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Response Number 5
Name: the pickle Date: November 4, 2002 at 13:32:42 Pacific
Reply:
If you do that, make sure the PC doesn't strip out the resource forks.
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