[minskeep]

I have an iomega external hard drive that I have had nothing but problems with. It was given to me and apparently it is supposed to be pretty nice. When I got it a couple years ago I began putting my photos, music, and videos on it in case my laptop were to ever crash and of course it did shortly after. I had to wipe the hard drive clean and reinstall OS X, yadda yadda yadda.. Then when I try to get my files off the external drive they were magically gone! The only explanation I have is that the external drive automatically syncs with whatever its hooked up to. Therefore it just got rid of everything on it since my laptop had nothing on it anymore. If that was what happened then doesnt that kinda defeat the purpose of an external hard drive?

But most recently I hooked the external drive to my moms PC (hoping maybe the files might show up on there), well they kinda did. When I opened the iomega folder/ drive it said the folder was empty yet when I went to properties it showed in the capacity that there were several MB of space being used. I tired everything I could to get them to appear in the folder but after getting frustrated I gave up. Has anyone ever had this issue? I would like to get more use out of the drive but I dont trust it if my mac were to ever crash again. So its practically brand new still and I dont use it. Its a 160 GB eGo Portable external drive. It looks a little different then the ones iomega sells now though.

[AKcrab]

iomega is crap.

Get a better drive.

[indigoimac]

An external hd is an external hd -- all that counts in the value market is what the mechanism itself is. Two of my friends have 3.5" models and they are decent -- with I think Western Digital drives. That said, I wouldn't buy one -- not that that helps you.

To see the drive on both win/mac it needs to be fat32 or you need to have something like macdrive on windows to read/write hfs or ntfs-3g to read/write ntfs on mac.

After actually reading your thread again -- that is very weird. The drive itself doesn't have the ability to sync against something else without being configured to do so and some sort of software on the host machine. When you mount the drive and look at space available what does it say?