Johno
28-12-2008, 12:51 PM
Hey,
I guess this is suited here since I am using a mac and the drive is connecting to a mac.
Anyway, just went out and purchased a WD Elements 1TB drive from Curry's and its a lovely drive but I can't seem to get it working correctly.
In disk utility it shows the drive and then the volumes:
Time Machine (the one I just created)
disk2s2 (Unmounted and wont mount when I try)
Now, I have tried repairing/verifying the drive but it fails when it gets to the second volume. Ill update this post with links to screenshots in a moment.
Any ideas/solutions - when I try to format the entire drive I also get an error.
http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/6456197b6c1578fDisk_UtilityScreenSnapz002.png (http://www.tehupload.com/share/23246)
http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/116597b6c1578f2FinderScreenSnapz002.png (http://www.tehupload.com/share/23247)
EDIT: Seems to only do this when I try to format into "Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)" - Seems to work fine when formatted into "MS-DOS (FAT)"
EDIT TWO:
Fixed it :) Thanks to this review on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2U2DHAP0PQVGN/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
Turns out it is due to the partion map being "Master Boot Record" rather than "Apple Partition Map"
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I guess this is suited here since I am using a mac and the drive is connecting to a mac.
Anyway, just went out and purchased a WD Elements 1TB drive from Curry's and its a lovely drive but I can't seem to get it working correctly.
In disk utility it shows the drive and then the volumes:
Time Machine (the one I just created)
disk2s2 (Unmounted and wont mount when I try)
Now, I have tried repairing/verifying the drive but it fails when it gets to the second volume. Ill update this post with links to screenshots in a moment.
Any ideas/solutions - when I try to format the entire drive I also get an error.
http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/6456197b6c1578fDisk_UtilityScreenSnapz002.png (http://www.tehupload.com/share/23246)
http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/116597b6c1578f2FinderScreenSnapz002.png (http://www.tehupload.com/share/23247)
EDIT: Seems to only do this when I try to format into "Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)" - Seems to work fine when formatted into "MS-DOS (FAT)"
EDIT TWO:
Fixed it :) Thanks to this review on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2U2DHAP0PQVGN/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
Turns out it is due to the partion map being "Master Boot Record" rather than "Apple Partition Map"
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