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    External HD Problem Pls HELP

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by princealyy, May 16, 2008.

  1. princealyy

    princealyy Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey Guys

    I have an external HD, that i store things on for backup (ie. mp3's, etc)

    So here is the problem, and please dont laugh... lol, i have already done that to myself...

    I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make this hd a read/ write drive. It always worked before, and now it just stopped working.

    I did go to info and it said this was read only, and also i went and checked, and the hdd is MS-DOS(fat) formatted.

    Please help, thanks..

    I need to move files over, before i take it to apple for service.
     
    princealyy, May 16, 2008
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  2. princealyy

    princealyy Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks in advance... :)
     
    princealyy, May 16, 2008
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  3. hollownail

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    what error are you getting?

    The drives normally say you can only read.
     
    hollownail, May 16, 2008
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  4. The_Observer

    The_Observer 9262 is the best:)

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    Can you copy things to and fro from the drive?
     
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  5. princealyy

    princealyy Notebook Evangelist

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    i cannot copies files to it, only from it, it says this is a read only drive... which is jsut weird..
     
    princealyy, May 16, 2008
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    Fat filesystem has no rights. It seems there would be another problem. So copy the files over you want to backup and format the disk again using the disk utility. You could also try first to hook it up on a windows machine to see what result that gives.
     
    SsuRReaLL, May 17, 2008
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  7. princealyy

    princealyy Notebook Evangelist

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    Ya i think that is what i will have to do, but i dont have that much room on my hdd on the computer, but hey what can you ???

    Will see what happens... thanks again guys...
     
    princealyy, May 18, 2008
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