External hard drive (TOSHIBA V63600-C 1TB. Windows 7 IT Pro. If it is formatted for the Mac OS a PC cant open it. Wanikiya and Dyami--Team Zigzag. Buy Toshiba Canvio Basics 1TB Portable Hard Drive. Windows/Mac* (*NTFS driver for Mac included) Auto backup software (for Windows).

You could try burning a few DVDs with the data to back it up first if you can't get another HD to hold the files even temporarily. As for fixing the problem, First make sure you have a backup as you might lose a few files in the process. Try running Apples' Disk Utility program first verifying the disk and then repair it if needed.

Then try fixing the permissions again—first verifying then repairing it. If you still have problems you may want to try a 3rd party app like Disk Genius It also can defragment the drive as well. The last option is to reformat as you already know. First make sure you have a backup BEFORE attempting any Disk Repair or Reformat.

If your Toshiba hard drive does not give you the paste option, just follow the steps: 1. Save any file in your hard drive Toshiba to another drive before you do anything! Open Finder 3. Google chrome download for mac. Go to applications 4. Open Utility folder 5. Download mac os x 10. Go to Disk Utility 6. Select on the left of your window your Toshiba Hard drive 7.

Select format: Mas OS ( journaled) 8. Click on Erase. And that's over. You can then paste what ever you on your hard drive.

The name of your hard drive will, obviously change to Untitled. You can later rename, if you want. I did something bizarre and it actually worked.

My Toshiba drives' permissions changed suddenly while using it. I am a strict mac user and I was trying to copy footage from an sd card.

It really needed to be copied and I noticed that the driver had changed to Microsoft's NTFS. I had access to a window's system and computer (Boooooo) lol so I attached the Toshiba drive and SD card to that computer and copied the footage over. After it was done, I reattached my toshiba drive to edit on my mac and to my surprise my permissions had returned. In short i'd say to try connecting your drive to a Windows system then backt o your mac to see if it helps. Hello everybody! I have a PROBLEM.

1) I wanted to use this toshiba on my macbook. But could not get it up and running (as is I could not copy files from my macbook to toshiba external hard disk.) 2)Then I found this wonderful solution and I followed every single step (on the first above steps - posted by 'Bel Naddar'). It worked of course.and I can copy my files from Macbook to Toshiba external Drive.

3)Then when I did that, I found out that it deletes all the files on my external hard drive.And now I am very very sad. Because there were two maps on that Toshiba external hard disk with photo's and videos of my children. 4)That is why I need to ask you this question. Is there in any way possible for me to retrieve those previous two maps (with all photo's and videos) back?

I have tried 'Wondershare Data Recovery' already, but I am getting nothing back. 5) Please, can someone help me on this? Thank you so much in advance. Hello I have a Toshiba hard drive. I am trying to copy the files to another external file and some of them simply won't copy - I keep getting the error message that the file cannot be read/opened from the folder/source. The 'problematic' files work perfectly fine when I open them (and no, they don't have commas, colons or other potentially problematic characters).

I have tried copying the files to other external drives, other computers, and it's always the same ones that cause the problem. What is the issue?

I really don't know what I should do - the files are very important and I am super frustrated.

Was the drive formated with Apple's Disk Utility or did you use the Toshiba software? It's not uncommon for users to not format for Mac after purchasing an external drive. If it's still formatted as MS-DOS, I would recommend moving all the data off and formatting correctly for the Mac.