[DM-MUG] Backup drive decision

[Jon Thompson]

It sounds like either a defective drive or your hard drive has some  
corruption.  First, run Disk Warrior on both drives.  If that does  
not help, I would take it back and get another.

Also, did you format it for Mac, or are you using the FAT32  
formatting?  If the latter, you should reformat the drive with Disk  
Utility.

-- 
- Jon


On 2007, Jul 30, at 9:46 AM, CMSSpace at aol.com wrote:

> I purchased a My Book Essential 500GB external USB2 drive  
> yesterday.  The price was $129 after rebates and I thought it  
> looked like a great deal.  After using it for a day and reading  
> about it online, I'm not convinced.  I've copied about 100GB to the  
> drive and for the most part it has worked without problem but I  
> have noticed that it won't copy a couple of my very large video  
> files over.  Although I have been able to move one 13.6GB file  
> over, attempts to move a couple of other large files have ended up  
> with a failure.  This worries me.  I have 14 days to try it out and  
> return it if I don't like it. But of course, I'm going on vacation  
> so I need to decide in the next day or two.  Anybody have any  
> experience with this drive.  I know this topic has been beaten to  
> death.  I would like something I can count on but I may consider  
> burning stuff to DVD as the best way to make sure the stuff is  
> backed up more permanently.
>
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