WD 750GB Passport Drive ERRORS!

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WD 750GB Passport Drive ERRORS!

I am new to mac and reading as much as I can but I need to get my files moved off my old Windows NTFS drives.
I picked up a 750GB WD Passport drive and I'm getting 2 errors.
First I used Utilities and setup 2 partitions both as MAC OS Extended (journaled)

Here are the 2 errors I'm getting:

http://files.mikesplace.ca/mac_stuff/750.png

http://files.mikesplace.ca/macstuff/7502.png

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.3), n00b to the mac!

Posted on May 31, 2010 3:32 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 1, 2010 2:54 AM in response to DJMic

Those drives are junk. You may want to get something else.

Did you format the drive and the partitions using Disk Utility?

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S7umpy

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Jun 1, 2010 3:09 AM in response to DJMic

yeah I had the 1 terabyte passport and it failed with in a month return it if you can and get something different.

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DJMic Author

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Jun 1, 2010 7:55 AM in response to DJMic

Sure did brand new from the box USB -> directly to disk utility.

What a joke! failed while trying to copy files over within the first hour.

What is recommended?

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JoeyR

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Jun 1, 2010 8:16 AM in response to DJMic

It's unfortunate really. Western Digital actually makes some good drives, but for some reason, they can't get a grip on making good controllers for their external enclosures (or get a good vendor to do it for them). Their whole line of external drives... be they the Passports, the MyBooks (ugg!), etc... just seem to be plagued with problems. It's not a one-time issue either. It's been going on for years.

LaCie, Toshiba, and Seagate are all good external options.

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DJMic Author

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Jun 1, 2010 8:17 AM in response to DJMic

On another note I have 2 Seagate 1TB drives in eSATA/USB external bays I used with my windows machine.
What a chore very slow to load, very slow speed can even watch an avi file without it skipping.
I'm about to go back to PC I can not rely on a single drive in my mac I need more space!

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