I learned this the hard way when I went to recently go grab some music from my external hard drive last week and found out that it was dead to my Mac. Wouldn't mount it, wounldn't read it, basically it was coming up blank.
What??? Noooooooo.....Years of music, pictures that I purposely had transferred to the external to get more space, and in a hurry had not done a second back-up onto DVDs.
My 160G Seagate external that was supposed to have been Mac and PC compatible had converted itself back to a MS-DOS format (for the computer-challenged) that means I am sooo screwed. This is actually a more common thing than I realized and happens when the external is improperly ejected (argh!)
A few hours searching in Mac help forums, trying to piggy back it through a PC and then finally succumbing to defeat and one last ditch effort, which to plagarize from the credit card ad:
$299 for a new 500G LaCie hard drive (Mac-Approved/format friendly drive)
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$99 for a disk recover program
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1 sleepless night
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praying that I would at least get the pictures back
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never forgetting to back-up again!
It looks like I've gotten back the music, photos and some of my old portfolio pages, design examples, etc.
Some programs may be lost but I can at least replace them with the newer upgrades.
So if anyone can learn from my lesson, I share this with you all as I reorganize it all! Back-up and format the drive to the most appropriate drive!
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