I'm trying to backup giles only new Mac Pro. iTunes files, word and others. It is telling me the drive is not drive not accessible. Why? I mean, I have been copying stuff from the discs, onto a 12th external drive. So why now the problem? I am just using finder to drag the files into the disk drive, then blocking burn. I am new to Apple. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong. I'm trying to backup giles only new Mac Pro. iTunes files, word and others. It is telling me the drive is not drive not accessible. Why? I mean, I have been copying stuff from the discs,... » Read More I'm trying to backup giles only new Mac Pro. iTunes files, word and others. It is telling me the drive is not drive not accessible. Why? I mean, I have been copying stuff from the discs, onto a 12th external drive. So why now the problem? I am just using finder to drag the files into the disk drive, then blocking burn. I am new to Apple. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong. « Show Less
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Hi Joshua,Please contact us support@digistor.com and we'll get you sorted out.Thanks,The DIGISTOR Support Teamwww.digistor.com/support
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The answer is already in my review:"Be also aware that any new Mac now comes without a system backup on DVD. Go to Apple support Web pages and look for « Reinstall OS X » and « Recovery Disk Assistant » for details."
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Lisa, I'm sorry. I don't know. (I'm not much of a computer expert, and I don't want to tell you wrong.) when I started to play a cd I was really surprised that my new Mac mini top of the line didn't have a superdrive. I guess everything is going toward streaming. I think I would visit the apple store just to be sure. Those guy's and gals know everything about Mac. Good luck. I'm sure they can help you out!
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I use it on a mac. I have bumped older ones and received the message "You have removed the disk without first ejecting. Your disk may be damaged" or something to that effect. but found no damage to the info. That said... there is always the first time.
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I did not format the drive as it was from an older computer and I needed the files from it. If it was a new drive you may need to format it. Most new ones are formatted to use with a Windows computer. I have a Mac and they pretty much will read anything. If it was a new drive I would format it just to make sure it worked with my computer, Mac or PC.
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This drive is probably formatted for a PC only. I purchased one that would not work on a Mac and returned it. Look closely at the descriptio and see that it work on the Mac OS.
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It will not work on Win7 if it's been formatted to work Mac. I have a mac that I backed up mp3s and stuff on this drive. Can't get it off using my Win7 machine.
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You must have a huge iTunes file if you need 10 Terabytes. Love this but I am concerned because if one hard drive fails, you lose the whole thing.
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I wouldn't know about windows 8 - don't know why it wouldn't be either...I do know that (and this is probably true for all flash drives) it has troubles going back and forth between mac and pc a lot. Apparently I abuse my flash drives, but I've tried to be better about ejecting them safely.
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Check he website. I think I saw some programs that you could download. But the drive works like any other so you can just use your OS backup software which works like a charm. It's really plug and play, no software needed.
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I installed my Apple 1TB drive in my Mac Pro. I suspected my primary drive was failing, so I moved it to bay 3. Then I put the new drive in bay 1. I had not installed a drive in a Mac tower for about 6 years, but I found instructions on the web that made each step extremely easy to carry out. Time from start (unplugging Mac), through installation of drive and some more memory, to power on was 1/2 hour. My OS X on the old drive was circa 2011, so I did a fresh install of a updated version of OS X on the new drive and transferred personal information from the old drive. The system upgrade was more difficult and time-consuming than the physical installation of the drive. I installed my Apple 1TB drive in my Mac Pro. I suspected my primary drive was failing, so I moved it to bay 3. Then I put the new drive in bay 1. I had not installed a drive in a Mac tower for about 6 years, but I found instructions on the web that made each step extremely easy to carry out. Time from start (unplugging Mac), through installation of drive and some more memory, to power on was 1/2 hour. My OS X on the old drive was circa 2011, so I did a fresh install of a updated version of OS X on the new drive and transferred personal information from the old drive. The system upgrade was... » Read More I installed my Apple 1TB drive in my Mac Pro. I suspected my primary drive was failing, so I moved it to bay 3. Then I put the new drive in bay 1. I had not installed a drive in a Mac tower for about 6 years, but I found instructions on the web that made each step extremely easy to carry out. Time from start (unplugging Mac), through installation of drive and some more memory, to power on was 1/2 hour. My OS X on the old drive was circa 2011, so I did a fresh install of a updated version of OS X on the new drive and transferred personal information from the old drive. The system upgrade was more difficult and time-consuming than the physical installation of the drive. « Show Less
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It doesn't work like a USB hard drive in that you connect it and you're off and going. However, you can use it as a network hard drive. What will happen is when you connect to a network with a Time Capsule on it (either as the primary router or as a network extender), it will show up under the "Shared" group of drives. This is similar to how other computers would be displayed if you have several computers on your home network and you enable file sharing between them (Windows machines, Linux machines, and other Macs). You'll be able to store and access files on the Time Capsule as if they were stored on your internal hard drive, as long as you're on the same network as the Time Capsule. There's no partitioning needed for this. However, do keep in mind that you'll have a file called (your computer's name).sparsebundle on the Time Capsule drive. This is your Time Machine backup. Unless the file becomes corrupt and your Mac gives you an error message like "Unable to use your current backup file, would you like to create a new one?" DO NOT DELETE THIS FILE. If you delete this file, YOU WILL LOSE ALL OF YOUR TIME MACHINE BACKUP DATA. Hope this helps.
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Mac Pros tend to have problems with USB 3 devices. Suggest a good USB 3 expansion card like SIIG and an extension cord. Hubs seem to have lots of problems. Also repartition the drive as GUID and use HFS+ formatting.
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Frankly I have found NO external drive either desktop or portable that have been particularly easy to work with and customer service of all (WD, Seagate, or Toshiba) either don't reply period or if they do it's gooble-de-gook. Seems as though that the hardware is perfectly capable of storing data but retrieving it is another question. The software is totally, absurdly complex. (Ditto thumb drives with password protected sectors. Impossible!) IT folks decry the fact that no one bothers to back up anything. Guess why?
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Hi to the best of my knowledge an experience on a Windows platform it shows as 2 separate drives. On the Mac os it shows as 1 drive.
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I did have this problem. I got an app to help me eject a disk because I wondered if one was stuck in there. Once I did that and restarted my MacBook, I didn't have the problem. I'm not sure what program I used to eject the disk, but there are several out there in the AppStore that can be tried. -- I know this question is quite old, but just in case someone in the future looks at this question, I wanted to add this information. Best of luck, everyone! :)
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When you hook this up to a PC it shows up as another hard drive in the my computer file. I dont think you download the info you drag and drop or copy whatever is on the zip disks to your system. You can view everything on the disks and do whatever you need to. Erase, copy edit etc. You also dont have to move the files to your PC to work on them or edit them . You are asking about using this with a PC and not a Apple PC I am assuming. There are 3 versions .