Mavericks corrupts external hard drive

People for YEARS have been chirping about NOT buying WD drives on this forum. This is more proof for same.

Buy Toshiba or Hitachi or Seagate drives.

Ive got just under a 100 hard drives, and even the free western digital drives I got,....I gave away.

I assume you have some "magical" WD software you installed which came with your WD? This is the likely source for Mavericks incapability. 😊

Ive been using 30 + diffferent external HD on Mavericks now, and run some huge data collections

ALL EXTERNAL HD (the 30+) work fine...... of course they arent WD

I assume you have some nasty WD "utilities" on your external drive?

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=200

Never install external HD software,...never ever never. Regardless of mfg.

idontknownousername

, just the WD Drive Manager installed

Ughhh, thats the problem 😢.

NEVER install HD software, it creates problems on Windows and Mac

All HD out of box should be thought of as bricks and formatted for use.

From your comments you have this on it:

http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=111&sid=61

WD My Book Studio 2 TB FireWire 800 External Hard Drive

The WD My Book Studio FW includes firmware [the WD Smartware] that cannot be deactivated

If you could (which you dont want to, nor do I blame you) rip the ACTUAL HD out and put it into a HD dock, it would work fine

A HD is a HD, is a HD......theyre all BRICKS. the SATA bridge in that box has some garbageware / firmware on it.

Always been warning people about any HD software or "in box" firmware/trashware.

Ive found other information about this issue elsewhere

Its an option you may be uncomfortable with, which is drive extraction.

Its actually very easy and Ive done it 100 times or more.

after that is requires either a HD dock, or a SATA bridge interface as here:

Rescue tools to use with your extracted HD for data recovery

Trocafish

Ripping out the disc would actually give me the file structure back?

Your files yes. But CONTACT WD FIRST, they may have a patch for this, .......Id never recommened someone crack open a drive that hasnt spent a lot of time tearing down computer hardware.

Thats a last resort for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ibyRyWXG0

Sorry you're wrong ...

I'm using the MyBook Studio II in Raid 1.

http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=114&sid=62&lang=en

It even says 10.9 support there.. problem is without the Software you don't see the RAID status, thats the only use case.

I rather think this is related to Firewire than the software. Been running the disc via usb for now and so far it works (not a real solution though).

idontknownousername

Sorry you're wrong ...

I rather think this is related to Firewire than the software.

Sorry, but im right, i MENTIONED the SATA bridge and its firmware.

Firmware and the SATA bridge imcompatability. Doesnt matter which,

The SATA firewire bridge is between the HD and the cable.

There is NOTHING between a computer and external HD (if its working ok) that will cause ANY problem but 2 things:

1. A bad SATA bridge

2. garbageware software to "improve HD performance" etc.

about bad SATA interfaces:>

Your dead external hard drive is likely fine! Great hope for your 'faulty' external HD

I did this, but that doesn't help. Seems the paritition table gets corrupted somehow.

I recoverd my files from the original casing. Basically you should get back most of the files, but without really useful names.

Im on your side, I feel for you, nobody wants data loss.

In the future avoid the fancy external HD. Simplicity is = divinity in all things.

brick HD + cable + enclosure.

everything else is fluff 😊

I thought you where referring to the note on the site you posted:

Very Important: Not compatible with New Operating Systems; check the list of supported operating systems below for compatibility before installing.

Anyway, how does this help anybody?

The Drive was working fine before mavericks, it doesn't with mavericks. I guess thats the point.

also, regardless of WD etc, make at least 2 copies of vital data you "dont DARE ever lose"

I dont mean a backup, but a genuine 2-Archives copy stashed away.

backups arent archives, and not to be 'trusted' ever . 😊

Your data is fine on your HD as long as the HD itself is mechanically fine.