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External drives

Hello-


My friend has an external drive he pulled out inadvertently and now it won't show on his desktop any longer. He can view it in disk utility but the only option is to restore it. Will this erase the data on it? I've always restarted everything and got the drive to show up. Any thoughts?

Posted on Nov 9, 2012 3:14 PM

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Nov 13, 2012 9:56 PM in response to Dale Weisshaar

I've never heard of an operating system on an external drive. It was formatted to MS flat. I repaired it copied pasted the files to my MacBook and than the drive broke while putting the files back on it. The files on the original copy were bad so I think the drive was on the way out.


Some if the files are lost so I suppose it's moot, but I was curious as to what happened.

External drives

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