I'm on the verge of losing 40GB+ of my stuff.
I have an external harddisk. i stored 40GB+ of my songs, pictures, videos....etc.
now when i plug it. i can see it on my desktop. i can access it and go through my folders, BUT i can't play a song from there.. so i drag a song or a folder to my desktop and when its on my desktop i try to double click it but nothing happens.. sometimes Quicktime opens but nothing plays and my Quicktime freezes or it directly freeze when i double click the song. it shows me this tiny circle with the rainbowish color.(whenever i try to relaunch finder nothing happens except the whole finder freezes!) and stays like this forever......
i went to an apple store (but stupid me didn't bring my laptop & harddisk).. he told me to restart my pb and keep (apple+alt+P+R) pressed. and then hopefuly everythings gonna work... but nothing happened!
HELP!
now when i plug it. i can see it on my desktop. i can access it and go through my folders, BUT i can't play a song from there.. so i drag a song or a folder to my desktop and when its on my desktop i try to double click it but nothing happens.. sometimes Quicktime opens but nothing plays and my Quicktime freezes or it directly freeze when i double click the song. it shows me this tiny circle with the rainbowish color.(whenever i try to relaunch finder nothing happens except the whole finder freezes!) and stays like this forever......
i went to an apple store (but stupid me didn't bring my laptop & harddisk).. he told me to restart my pb and keep (apple+alt+P+R) pressed. and then hopefuly everythings gonna work... but nothing happened!
HELP!
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Also, when you "drag to the desktop" do you see a little green "+" sign next to the cursor? If not, try dragging to the desktop with Option pressed before you let go. You should see the "+" and that will try to copy whatever file it is to your PB. Otherwise, if I'm not mistaken, you're dragging them to the desktop folder of your external.
Or you could just drag it to a local folder, and it'll copy automatically.
Hope that helps.
--B
Originally posted by bergz
What kind of external is it? USB 2? Firewire?
Also, when you "drag to the desktop" do you see a little green "+" sign next to the cursor? If not, try dragging to the desktop with Option pressed before you let go. You should see the "+" and that will try to copy whatever file it is to your PB. Otherwise, if I'm not mistaken, you're dragging them to the desktop folder of your external.
Or you could just drag it to a local folder, and it'll copy automatically.
Hope that helps.
--B
its USB 2.
there is a green(+) on the cursor when i drag and drop. Now i tried to drop it in a local folder. the file is MP3.. when i dropped it, the file looked like a blank white paper.. (u know not like my other MP3s which have the quicktime logo)..
i'm still clueless... thanks for the help though!
#2) Get info on one of your songs both on the desktop and external. They should match.
#3) Make a disk image if you can. That should back things up (and any errors) if you need to reformat.
I once had problem where a disk error corrupted the files I tried to backup. That soon left me with a reformatted drive and backup files that didn't work.
--B
Here's what I did.
there is an update .. i just dragged an MP3 to my local folder and as usual the finder froze (sp?). i just opened Safari and surfed for about 30 min. then i removed the drive and some window poped that says something along the lines ( u have unplunged the drive and u stopped the operation ... blah blah) i went to my local folder and found the mp3 .. played it and it played for 5 sec! and then got cut off... which means that the tranfering did work but with a turtle speed! (30 mins for just about 0.5% of the mp3)
so any ideas?
sorry about my english guys!
P.S. to slughead: ????
I was able to browse the top level of folders, but as soon as I went to a file, or a group of files, the beachball appeared.
I removed the hard drive mechanism from the USB enclosure and popped it in to a FireWire enclosure and it has been working perfectly ever since.
Hope this helps!
i don't think i can change my drive to firewire... i don't know how.. i don't know where to go to make this happen.
my drive doesn't have a power supply .. it uses my USB 2 power to opperate. (my USB wire has a 2 head end.. i plug them both in my pb.. if i plug 1 it won't work).
I'm getting hopeless......... since I have no idea or background in these things.. and i'm somewhat still a newbie to Macs..
Guys thanks a lot I really appreaciate ur help!
I'm assuming from your description that you're using a 2.5" hard disk rather than a 3.5" hard disk. 2.5" hard disk drives are designed for use in laptops and unlike 3.5" hard disk drives they can be powered directly from a USB 2 port.
So, it sounds like you have a standard 2.5" hard disk drive fitted to some sort of external USB enclosure. The good news is that you'll probably be able to (or pay someone to) remove the hard disk from the enclosure and fit it to a FireWire enclosure, at which point, there's a good chance you'll be able to access the files again.
Can you give me some further information on the type of enclosure that you're using?
its 60GB in capacity. the cover is hardplastic, it feels like rubber. the usb wire attached to the HD is really tiny unlike the one in my pb. it has 5 pins.
i think i'm gonna go to a computer shop to see if i can switch it to firewire.
gosh its annoying! i mean i can see the files anf browse them but can't transfer them!!
EDIT: Sorry, but it looks like it doesn't work with Firewire/USB drives. I thought it did. I guess they have to be internal drives.
Originally posted by Ebby
S.M.A.R.T. Status
EDIT: Sorry, but it looks like it doesn't work with Firewire/USB drives. I thought it did. I guess they have to be internal drives.
aaahh errr... i've found the S.M.A.R.T. thingy.. it says (not supported).
Originally posted by TofaChino
gosh its annoying! i mean i can see the files anf browse them but can't transfer them!!
Yup!
That's exactly the problem that I had with a USB drive. Switching it to a FireWire enclosure solved the problem - what a relief!
Let us know how you get on!
I DID IT!!!!!!!! THANKYOU Messiah
today i went and changed the cover to one that support USB & Firewire! and it worked with the firewire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU!!!!!!
P.S: now everybody go to my other topic about iChat's audio conference and help me there!!! lol
Originally posted by TofaChino
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!
I DID IT!!!!!!!! THANKYOU Messiah
today i went and changed the cover to one that support USB & Firewire! and it worked with the firewire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU!!!!!!
P.S: now everybody go to my other topic about iChat's audio conference and help me there!!! lol
Yey!
That's great news - and I'm glad to have been of some help!