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I cant copy to or defrag my western digital 250gb external hdd I have scanned for viruses malware and adware It will read from it but after a while it always says theres a delayed write failure and or an I/O error. and acts like it was disconnected even when it hasnt been.
Re: I cant copy to or defrag my western digital 250gb...
Go to Start, Control Panel, Power Settings, and look in there to see if you have a power setting that puts your hard drive into a semi-active state or sleep after so many minutes of non-use.
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Chances are it was formatted as NTFS format by the PC which is not MAC compatible. You will need to reformat the drive in HFS format if you want it to work as a MAC disk only or in FAT32 format if you want to read it in PC and MAC machines.
Your WD HDD have been attacted by viruses for your computer or outside computer where you used it last. Make sure that you have an up to date antivirus software, scan your computer or the external hard drive, explore your computer, go to tools - folder options under view files & folders select show hidden files and folders apply and ok it.
Download a program called Hijackthis from Download.com
Once you run it, click on the button that says "Open the Misc Tools Section" and then choose "Delete file on reboot"
Select the file from your external HD, and click okay. It will ask you to restart your computer, so be sure that you have everything closed down and ready to restart.
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I would advise to also run a Virus scan (I advise running Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, also from Download.com) on your external, because it sounds like a virus. Just FYI.
The Western Digital My Passport line, besides the Essential Series, is originally formated for a Mac (in the HFS+ format) and as such cannot be read by Windows PCs. You can either get a program to read the External such as Macdrive, or format it to NTFS or FAT32; formats that are readable by Windows. I would recommend formatting it to NTFS, because you can only transfer up to 4 Gigabyte files to FAT32, while NTFS is nearly limitless.
Since you have not given any specifications about model of your HDD hence I'd consider your HDD connects through USB. Your USB driver is old you shall consider upgradation.
Check the file system on your My Book. FAT32 has a file size limit of 4GB. I ran into the same problem when I tried to copy over a 4.5GB file from my laptop with NTFS on it. The file would not copy.
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