have you tried the obvious: disconnect, shut down, restart, reconnect the
drive? Have you tried both USB and Firewire connections?
DVDs can only hold up to 4.4 GB, or 8.5 on double layer. Is that enough for
your iTunes?
You have copied to DVD on the Mac and yet the Mac can't read the DVD? The PC
can?
Otto
On 23/11/2007, Michelle Zacharias-Kawamura <misheru32@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> I was hoping that this most recent iTunes update (7.5)
> would correct the problem that I experienced with the
> one before that (7.4.2?).
>
> I have an eMac with OS 10.3.9 and an external hard
> disk (USB) that was working just fine until the past
> two software updates. Now my computer won't recognize
> the hard disk and it says that OS X can't handle the
> volume! (I'm assuming initialization might be a
> problem here.)
>
> I went to the Apple store today here in Japan and they
> of course did not get the same error on their computer
> but I think their computers would still not read the
> disk. (I could be wrong. They don't always like to
> tell me the details. I just know that they did not get
> the same error that I did and so therefore say that my
> error is unsupported by results.) They then said
> (almost as a reflex!) that I should bring in my
> computer to get it checked out and fixed. Huh? This
> was after about 30 seconds.
>
> Further discussion led to another guy chipping his two
> yen in and saying that the hard disk was probably
> faulty. I protested that it was fine until two updates
> ago. he said that was probably just a coincidence with
> the timing.
>
> Does anybody know of anybody else with the same kind
> of experience recently? Will rebooting be the
> solution? Is the best solution just to get a new
> external hard disk? Or, two? (I backed everything up
> to DVD but the eMac doesn't read them. The PC does
> though, so I still have t he data. The staff just
> laughed when I said I backed up to DVD by the way. AT
> least I backed things up!)
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