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Western Digital External Hard drive wont mount anymore
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BlakIce
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Feb 8, 2004, 03:27 PM
 
i had no problems with this drive for about a week but i unplug it from my pc today and plug it into my powerbook and it doesnt mount i get a constant hard drive activity light, i unplug the firewire cable and it stops plug it back in and it starts up again, and i plug it back into my PC and it mounts just fine. any suggestions
     
dantley
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Feb 8, 2004, 08:01 PM
 
You may have to initialize it. WD 120 external has problems with long file names from mac os. This due to it being formatted in windows. Which WD drive do you have?
     
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Feb 9, 2004, 08:20 AM
 
This could also be the Panther FireWire problem.

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=200326 (read on down)

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=200941

Does the drive show up in Disk Utility?
     
   
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