[SGVLUG] FW: Hard drive question

[Matt Campbell]

Hi Tom,

I just need it to work under Windows for now,  it probably formats fine on
the Mac so I'm not sure that Apple will be of much help.  It was purchased
as a Windows drive formatted so I am guessing that the Apple guys won't be
able to help out much.  I'll try formatting it on my new iMac,  thanks for
the suggestion.  We'll see if that helps.

Matt

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Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:05 PM
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Subject: RE: [SGVLUG] FW: Hard drive question

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net 
> 
> It is a LaCie external USB drive.

I know that you bought this from Fry's, and despite the comment in the
other thread (can't hurt?), I think he meant talking to the
manufacturer, not Fry's staff.

That said, I believe LaCie is/was originally sold as an Apple external
drive, so you might have a go at an Apple "Genius Bar" -- try and catch
them on a day and time when they aren't busy, and maybe they'll give it
a once-over and/or USEFUL suggestions  (when I bought an Ipod from Fry's
that started "acting weird", I did the same thing -- took it to the
Apple store to confirm that the weirdness "wasn't normal", and armed
with that knowledge, it made dealing with the Fry's staff much easier)

> The drive seemed to be 
> working properly, but after removing many small files from it 
> I decided to do a quick format to clean out the filesystem.  
> The format failed about half way through due to 'an unknown 
> error'.  I have not been able to get it to format under 
> Windows since.  It works fine under Linux, some may ask 'so 
> what is the problem?'.

Let me guess, this external drive MUST work in a heterogeneous
environment?  [that's a $2 word meaning 'windows and everyone else' ;) ]