Good afternoon Jon and all, Very much like Daniel I have been using WD drives for many years and currently have 10 of them giving me no troubles at all, 2 internal drives and the rest external.
However, late last year I purchased a 750Gb WD external with USB & FW interfaces and the drive gave me trouble from the very start in that it would sometime mount and at other times there was nothing I could do to mount it. Result was that I could not reformat using Disk Utility, and returned it back. And 3 weeks ago a small 500GB drive, also a WD with FW & USB, did the very same thing and was promptly returned to the shop. Must add that for both of those 'faulty' drives I tried both USB and FW with no luck. I am not sure of where the problem lies because in the past 3 years I have been helping friends and family set up their external drives, all being WD which I did recommend they purchase, without any problems. The last one I formatted and set up was a 2 TB triple interface WD, a really good drive. I think that if the drive can be mounted and you can reformat as Daniel advised, then it should not cause any problems, however I tend to suspect something is wrong with it. Good luck, Philippe 2010/7/24 Daniel Kerr <[email protected]> > > Hi Jon > > I've also used (and installed) lots of Western Digital drives and they all > work well. (Probably close to over a hundred drives easily over the last > 2-3 > years) And I also use about 7+ Western Digital drives here. All work well. > > I would try formatting it in Disk Utility and see how it goes. If still the > same you can try a zero all data/low level format will sometimes wipe out > any bad sectors as well. (Just takes a while). > > 2. Try Repairing Permissions. Does it still on a particular part of the > update? You could try downloading them manually from here > <http://support.apple.com/downloads/> and then see which ones install and > which ones stop. You may then have to remove it from /Receipts and work out > which (and why) one is stopping. > > Hope that helps. > > Kind Regards > Daniel > > > On 24/7/10 1:05 PM, "Vladimir James" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > No problems here. Have been using a pair of WD 1 TB for the last year > without > > hassles. > > > > Vlad James > > > > On 24/07/2010, at 11:32 AM, Jon Davison wrote: > > > >> > >> Hi everyone. I have two problems, as usual. So I would welcome any > >> suggestions here; > >> > >> 1. Has anyone had any problems with these 1TB WD drives? mine has always > done > >> odd things, like crash, freeze the system etc. So now I have wiped the > drive > >> in TechTool Pro 4. > >> After getting info, I find this; > >> > >> Capacity: 931.39 GB > >> Available: 513.2 GB > >> Used: 418.19 GB > >> > >> The drive is empty (well it appears so) so am just wondering what is > taking > >> up this space? I tried to verify and/or repair in Disk Utility but it > says > >> that it cannot unmount the drive. > >> So not sure what is happening. I wanted to erase and reformat the drive > to > >> see if it can still be used, but it appears there may be a problem at > the > >> root level? > >> Any clues re the above drive? > >> > >> My system is; > >> MacPro 2 x 2.66 GHz dual/2GB/1TB/10.5.1 > >> > >> 2. I cannot update the OS software or any other on the above machine. It > just > >> stalls, I can wait all day and it does nothing. > >> > >> > >> ps; Thank you Bob for taking the time to look at my 2 x G5's with the > RAM > >> problem. The cases are now happy in their new incarnation as letter > boxes! > >> > >> Thanks > >> Jon > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > --- > Daniel Kerr > MacWizardry > > Phone: 0414 795 960 > Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> > Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> > > > **For everything Macintosh** > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > > -- J Philippe Chaperon Perth, Australie Occidentale -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
