Hi;

I have a Verbatim 1TB external USB HDD which I have had for a couple of years. Its partitioned into 1 x HFS for backing up using Time Machine for my 2 x Macs and 1 x FAT32 as external storage to share between my 2 x Macs and my variouWindows XP and 7 PCs.

Just lately it has been having problems being recognised and looks like SOMETHING has become corrupted. i.e I'll power it up attached to my Macbook and the HFS is not visible and the FAT32 shows up but as empty and not formatted. I just BOOTED into XP on the Mac using Boot Camp and the FAT32 is visible as are the contents but I cannot read or write to / from the drive.

Any ideas how I can fix this or retrieve the data and replace the drive, when trying to copy FILES to the Drive I recieved a Data Error (Cyclic redundancy check) erro message. When trying to read file such as a film VLC simply said that the file was corrupted.

Could it be the HDD or the USB contoller in the casing?

Quote from: JonnyAlpha on September 25, 2011, 05:45:16 AM

Hi;

I have a Verbatim 1TB external USB HDD which I have had for a couple of years. Its partitioned into 1 x HFS for backing up using Time Machine for my 2 x Macs and 1 x FAT32 as external storage to share between my 2 x Macs and my variouWindows XP and 7 PCs.

Just lately it has been having problems being recognised and looks like something has become corrupted. i.e I'll power it up attached to my Macbook and the HFS is not visible and the FAT32 shows up but as empty and not formatted. I just booted into XP on the Mac using Boot Camp and the FAT32 is visible as are the contents but I cannot read or write to / from the drive.

Any ideas how I can fix this or retrieve the data and replace the drive, when trying to copy files to the Drive I recieved a Data Error (Cyclic redundancy check) erro message. When trying to read file such as a film VLC simply said that the file was corrupted.

Could it be the HDD or the USB contoller in the casing?