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I have what appears to be called a Verbatim USB 2.0 Executive Portable Hard Drive 500GB, which also appears to be no longer in existence. I am setting up linux on said hard drive which I have formatted to FAT-32. I no longer have the driver. On the Verbatim website I found that they claim the 2.0EXPHD to fall under 2.5" USB drivers and that one of those would be fine. The file downloads as a .zip file from an Australian based web page. It appeared that it was a SFX, but I'm not sure because the single file occupying the archive had a curupt file path and didn't have any files to be extracted except itself over and over. Anyway, Windows 7 seems to have found a driver of its own that works with my 500GB drive called name: WDC WD50 00BEVT-00ZAT0 USB Device, type: Disk Drives, Manufacturer: (standard disk drives), Location: on USB Mass Storage Device (USBTurboSpeed), Provider: Microsoft, Driver Date: 6/21/2006, Driver Version: 6.1.7600.16385, Signer: Microsoft. There are two certificates that were located under C:\\Windows\System32\drivers\, one called disk.sys, and the other partmgr.sys. Should I even bother using the origional driver, these windows drivers seem to work fine and I don't even know if the Verbatim drivers will work after on Linux but I did a boot and know that the microsoft ones do work? Any other suggestions that could help me in managing this?
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From Verbatim "Installing your portable hard drive is extremely simple - just use the included mini-USB cable to connect your hard drive to any free USB port on your computer. On Windows computers, a new icon will appear in My Computer representing your hard drive. On Mac OS systems, your hard drive will appear on the desktop as a new disk."
If some of the files came from music services like iTunes or a Windows Media store, they will be in formats other than MP3 and will not be visible on an MP3 playing device.
Sounds like you might have to initialize the hard drive. Go to the left on that hard drive (where it says Disk 1 or 2, etc) and right click. It should give you the option to initialize. From here you should be able to format, etc.
You have to partition your Verbatim Drive to work on a Mac. Go to Macintosh HD / Applications / Utilities / Disk Utility. When in Disk Utility select the 232.9 GB SAMSUNG HM250HI Media to the left.
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