External Hard Drive Dilemma

bpace · 11-03-2006, 01:01 PM

I recently purchased an external hard drive and copied several of my dvd's onto it, it then proceeded to stop registering on my mac. I have tried it on several different mac and pc machines, and it doesn't even appear in the disk utility.

Although it is still under warranty I am apprehensive to take to PC world (

) to be fixed incase they fix it and see all the *ahem* copyed data saved on it! I'm not bothered about trying to restore any of the data and I would consider wiping all the data somehow and then returning it to PC world to get a new one.

Any suggestions would be massively helpful, It's killing me not having the extra byte-space!

many thanks

codeman0013 · 11-03-2006, 03:14 PM

We cannot help you with illegal copyrighted material on a harddrive its against forum rules read the rules man this will be shut down and locked shortly i'm sure

bpace · 11-03-2006, 03:40 PM

sorry, my bad. thanks anyway

11-03-2006, 01:01 PM	#1 (permalink)
bpace New Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 2	External Hard Drive Dilemma I recently purchased an external hard drive and copied several of my dvd's onto it, it then proceeded to stop registering on my mac. I have tried it on several different mac and pc machines, and it doesn't even appear in the disk utility. Although it is still under warranty I am apprehensive to take to PC world () to be fixed incase they fix it and see all the ahem copyed data saved on it! I'm not bothered about trying to restore any of the data and I would consider wiping all the data somehow and then returning it to PC world to get a new one. Any suggestions would be massively helpful, It's killing me not having the extra byte-space! many thanks

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11-03-2006, 03:14 PM	#2 (permalink)
codeman0013 Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Inside my network at work Age: 23 Posts: 1,518	We cannot help you with illegal copyrighted material on a harddrive its against forum rules read the rules man this will be shut down and locked shortly i'm sure

11-03-2006, 03:40 PM	#3 (permalink)
bpace New Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 2	sorry, my bad. thanks anyway