Mac/PC issues

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Hi.

A few months ago I was about to transfer some photos from my PC (windows 7) to a Mac, but when I plugged my 500gb WD passport into the mac, it wouldn’t work properly and ever since won’t work properly on my own computer either. I’ve tried running a scan which didn’t help much, and now I am at a loss for ideas. The strange thing is that the harddrive shows up on the disk management thing you can open when you right click My Computer and when I right click it in there it says that it is working fine. I have a friend who the same thing happened to after he tried using his harddrive on a Mac also.

Anyone have any experience with this problem? :robotmad:

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I think hooking the drive up to the Mac may have corrupted something. Windows is formatted NTFS and is susposed to be read only on a Mac. Mac uses a different format. Are you trying to recover the data or just looking for the cause of problem?

Joe

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Ideally I would like to recover the data on the drive, but if there is nothing I can do I guess I’ll format it and let it go…

I mainly just want my hard drive back but I also have files on there that I would love to have back.

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You can try Partition Find and Mount http://findandmount.com/  or TestDisk http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk Then there are some data recovery programs in this post  http://community.wdc.com/t5/My-Passport-for-PC/Western-Digital-External-Hard-Drive-my-files-lost/td-p/243020 maybe they can restore the bad partition data. You can also try Burning a Linux Live CD and boot from that and see if you can access your data that way.

Joe

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Well, none of those worked but thanks for the advice. So how do I format this thing?

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See if this helps http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=3865
Joe