External Hard Drives

Excuse huge image... Just plug in the drive, select it and click erase...

your using a similar theme to me

and thanks

What you on about? Yours is totally different! I like your file menu... I can't be arsed tinkering with my desktop anymore, tho' maybe I should...

i use wd passports, a 250gb and a 320gb, i think it's 7200 rpm... had no problems except the 250 is just music, and full and crashes my serato but aside from that it's fine, but i do need to but another to copy everythign off so i can reformat it...

dabs.co.uk is good

What you on about? Yours is totally different! I like your file menu... I can't be arsed tinkering with my desktop anymore, tho' maybe I should...

so it is, just that you aren't using the normal aqua :)

@teenslain, thanks buddy that worked :)

right, who knows a good easy to use free back-up application/program to use?
just to save files etc.

bollox, fuckit!! it won't bloody mount now.......grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!

After you erased it are you sure you partitioned it as FAT32? Teenslain's method was the quick way to do the way I told you but I always like to give the details away so you can see how to partition it in different ways etc.

By the way, restart the mac. It may just be a problem in the partition table because the mac is confused as to why the same hardware (the drive) has a different table on it.

I use Unison for all my syncing / backups. Its free, and solid. Further, it allows 2-way syncing, so if you alter a copy in either place (be they local or remote) it will correctly sync both copies to the newer one. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

The binary for mac is here.

@teenslain, thanks buddy that worked :)

right, who knows a good easy to use free back-up application/program to use?
just to save files etc.

Anyone know any cheap places to buy these? 80 GB plus.

Thanks in advance.

I bougth a new one, a month ago, 700Gb for 70quids in PC World

this is probably the fastest and lazyest option, probaly something from ebay germany will be the best realtion price-size. I had in the past buy two there

Maplin from time to time has very good offers

2.5" or 3.5"? the big ones or the small ones

1Tb for 79

1Tb for 84

this one is £5 less than the first one rik suggested with free next day delivery!

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142563