I have a VAIO and a Mac OS X. I have an external Firewire/USB2.0 7200 RPM 300GB HD made by Seagate. I have always simply swapped the USB from Mac to PC for months. Today i went and tried to copy some files onto it using my PC and it froze up on me. I just thought probably just a normal PC crash (thats why i use Macs now! No more crashing.) Anyways back on subject...

I held the power button it turned off and i left the external drive plugged in because it was copying files and i didnt want to fry it by jerking it out. Then the PC wouldnt start up at all. I unplugged the drive and voila it worked. Now everytime i plug in the drive it wont even read it. It says its a error with the I/O in some deep system folder. No idea how to fix this one. I'm usually fairly good at fixing stuff like this and when it doesnt work researching it and fixing it, but this i can't fix.

It works fine on my Mac though. That is what bugs me. And its not like its the first time i have tried to move it from Mac to PC. I used to do it all the time and connect to it from my WLAN also.

Please HELP!

 

 

 

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Can you give more details about the I/O error or even better provide a screenshot? Your file system could have been messed up by something on the Mac which makes it not work on the PC. That's my only guess.

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I used to have the same problem with my external hard drive. First it worked fine every time. But then one day I had a problem with "I/O error" and ever since then it kept having errors, but then I just reconnected it a dozen times turning it's power off, restarting my computer, unplugging and plunging the usb connection and it somehow fixed itself after many many tries. It still does the "I/O error" when I try moving large amounts of data, in the 100 megabyte range. Probably a device failure on windows, you can try reinstalling the drivers from internet as the ones on the hard drive plug and play might be corrupted.

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If you drop it from about twenty-five feet, it'll never give you another error.

 

 

 

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Well i can no longer give you the I/O error because now it comes up and doesnt freeze my computer, but it wont access the drive. It says it just can't open it and it doesn have the name of it, which is Sea_Disk, anymore. It just says I: (the drive letter) It froze my HD this time. I couldnt shut it off. So i am scared to plug it back in, but if you think a screen shot of the error will help then i will. Just a little worried about unplugging the power source because it wont turn off.

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