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Friend has Iomega 1 terabyte USB external containing 2 500gig Seagate SATA drives.
It was supplied formatted for Windows but the manual suggests reformatting under Apple.
Unfortunately the manual didn't mention that this could take a little time. After 4 hours my friend decided something was wrong and turned the drive
off.
Unsurprisingly, on next connecting it to the Apple, no disk could be found.
Same when I connected to my PC's USB -- nothing visible in My Computer. though Device Manager seemed to recognise the drive.
I took the Iomega apart and reformatted the drives individually on an XP PC but have now found that the 500 gig drives are now only 137 each.
I'm hoping that when the drive is connected to the Apple again it will also be recognised and when reformatted may hopefully be restored to a Terabyte but I fear some translation software was involved and this has been erased.
Any thoughts ?
It was supplied formatted for Windows but the manual suggests reformatting under Apple.
Unfortunately the manual didn't mention that this could take a little time. After 4 hours my friend decided something was wrong and turned the drive
off.
Unsurprisingly, on next connecting it to the Apple, no disk could be found.
Same when I connected to my PC's USB -- nothing visible in My Computer. though Device Manager seemed to recognise the drive.
I took the Iomega apart and reformatted the drives individually on an XP PC but have now found that the 500 gig drives are now only 137 each.
I'm hoping that when the drive is connected to the Apple again it will also be recognised and when reformatted may hopefully be restored to a Terabyte but I fear some translation software was involved and this has been erased.
Any thoughts ?