[Helpdesk] need to borrow external firewire harddrive asap

[Edwin L. Crow]

Cannot reformat.  Tried.  The disk is read only and I cannot seem to  
do anything.

Ed

______________________________
Edwin L. Crow, Ph.D.
YATOKA Associates, Inc.
11 Arroyo Pequeno
Santa Fe, NM 87506
or
P.O. Box 911
Santa Fe, NM 87504-0911

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On Feb 15, 2006, at 9:15 AM, Andrew Main wrote:

> Can you reformat it in Disk Utility? No sense using a Windoze NT  
> formatted drive with a Mac.
>
> Unfortunately, I have seen a lot of reports of problems with  
> LaCie's full-size (not portable) desktop d2 drives; apparently the  
> power supplies fail, sometimes incrementally, causing speed  
> fluctuations, which can render the drive unusable.
>
> Andrew
>
> On Feb 15, 2006, at 8:54 AM, Edwin L. Crow wrote:
>
>> I purchased a used LaCie external drive.  It is read only on my  
>> mac system 10.4.5.  Drive is formated to Windows NT.  I cannot  
>> seem to get to be read/write.  Suggestions.
>>
>> Ed
>>
>> ______________________________
>> Edwin L. Crow, Ph.D.
>> YATOKA Associates, Inc.
>> 11 Arroyo Pequeno
>> Santa Fe, NM 87506
>> or
>> P.O. Box 911
>> Santa Fe, NM 87504-0911
>>
>> Phone: (505) 820-2444
>> Cell: (505) 577-5222
>> Fax: (505) 989-9557
>> Email: EdCrow at YATOKA.com
>>
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