Hi all,
I have an iomega external hard drive that I originally used for class and it was formatted to work on the mac desktops in my school computer lab. I also used it at home on my personal mac laptop and the last time that I checked, there was a bunch of media on it (mostly pictures). My mac laptop isn't working right now so I'm using an old sony vaio computer since I have no other choice. It runs windows 7. When I plug in the external hard drive with the usb cord, the light on the drive turns on and I hear a noise which I assume means that it's running. However, when I look in disk management it says that the drive has no media. It also won't let me open the drive at all. Is this because it has to be reformatted for a windows computer or is there something else wrong? Also, if I reformat, will I lose my media? Should I just wait until I fix my mac and then retrieve my media through there instead? I just really hope that I didn't lose all of my stuff!
Thanks a lot for reading.
I have an iomega external hard drive that I originally used for class and it was formatted to work on the mac desktops in my school computer lab. I also used it at home on my personal mac laptop and the last time that I checked, there was a bunch of media on it (mostly pictures). My mac laptop isn't working right now so I'm using an old sony vaio computer since I have no other choice. It runs windows 7. When I plug in the external hard drive with the usb cord, the light on the drive turns on and I hear a noise which I assume means that it's running. However, when I look in disk management it says that the drive has no media. It also won't let me open the drive at all. Is this because it has to be reformatted for a windows computer or is there something else wrong? Also, if I reformat, will I lose my media? Should I just wait until I fix my mac and then retrieve my media through there instead? I just really hope that I didn't lose all of my stuff!
Thanks a lot for reading.
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