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Question about 500GB My Book World Edition 500 GB Hard Drive

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...NTFS. Is the OSX version correct or should it be 10.3. If it is actually 1.3 it would mean you have the OSX Server edition that originally came out in 1999 and it may not have very good USB support - ...

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Question about Caviar WD2500BB 250 GB Hard Drive

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...is no space in any of the drive. 3) File type RAW is displayed in properties option (instead of NTFS). Sometimes the file type showing nothing. 4) While trying to open by double clicking or from ...

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Question about MY BOOK HOME 1TB EXT HD-USB2/FW/E-SATA 3.5IN 1YR FireWire 400 Hard Drive

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...the Mac's filesystem format (HFS+), or on the Mac to write a Windows format (probably best to use NTFS). Examples of software like that are: (Win) MacDisk , MacDrive (Mac) MacFUSE with NTFS-3G or ...

Question about My Book Home Edition 500 GB USB Hard Drive

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...your hard drive can only read files up to 4GB, format your external harddrive using file system NTFS then try to back up all your files again. Hope it helps you... FAT32 is a type of disk ...

Question about My Book Essential Edition (WDG1U5000N) 500 GB Hard Drive

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Reformat my external drive to NTFS My problem is that I can not back-up files larger than 2GB for example a PST that is almost 6GB. It says not enough space when I have 250GB available. If I reformat ...

Question about MY BOOK HOME 1TB EXT HD-USB2/FW/E-SATA 3.5IN 1YR FireWire 400 Hard Drive

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...it on Windox Xp with NTFS filing system and 32bit. what kind of not recognizing do u mean, is it Unrecognised USB Device, or does it show its LED light and does display on screen? specify ...

Question about Passport WDXML800UE (WDXML800UETE) 80 GB Hard Drive

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the Command Prompt console (Start > Run... > type "cmd" without the quotes.) 2.) Type "g: /fs:ntfs /nosecurity" (without quotes, of course. replace "g:" with your drive's location) 3.) Enter the

Question about Scorpio WD800UE 80 GB Hard Drive

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...mean it needs to be formatted and returned to factory condition. Then you can use a number of tools. Active Killdisk is a good free app that will erase the drive. You can then put your windows or ...

Question about Scorpio WD800UE 80 GB Hard Drive

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...lossAfter the new primary partition has been created Disk Management will display the drive with an NTFS partition  The NTFS partition is unusable on a Mac. If the drive is used on Macintosh and ...

Question about WD Passport 250GB Portable Drive 250 GB Hard Drive

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...add new simple volume from here you just need to set what letter you want and it should format to ntfs. now you should be able to see your new hard drive in my ...

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