20 Most Recent Iomega (33215) 250 GB Hard Drive Questions & Answers

Dear Friend, Your I-Omega case might be bad or the controller inside that connects everything. I suggest you to get: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Apricorn-Universal-Hard-Drive-Adapter/10811435. and pulled your hard drive enclosure apart, then removed your hard drive and connect with the external adapter. Usually comes with a SATA or IDE connector for data and power adapter. After connecting everything plug into your PC and it should be able to recognize. Good Luck#

Yes you can. Inside you will find a completly normal hdd. just unmount it from backup and mount on pc and you are ready to go. note: you must have a free slot and a free power cord to conect the hdd

click start click on my computer you should see your iomega drive right click then select format another way is to control panel administrative tools computer management disk management right click on your iomega drive select format hope this helps

This is really not a solution, but you should all try to connect your iomega to a imac, and use the Disk Utility (in Utilities folder), if you have any luck the hard drive will be recognized and you will be able to format it

1. Did you make sure to check if this product is Mac-compatible? 2. If so, make sure that the format is in HFS+.
If it's not in HFS+ format, you can re-format the hard drive into HFS+ format.

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Be Careful Here!!
If you are connecting this drive to an incompatible host, you risk losing all that important data, and even the host data!!!!!!.
Some of the recent viruses out there can render a USB drive a source of infection that can ruin all the internal drives of the host system. Also, many folks connect an external USB drive to their cherished host without considering whether the USB drive was formatted in a MAC or PC environment. ie, a MAC host system should be able to read from a PC-formatted USB drive, but if you try to write to that external drive, you will likely lose all the PC-written data on that drive. Often, a PC host will not be able to read or recognize a MAC-formatted USB external drive.
Sometimes the problem is that a PC host will want to have drivers installed for the external drive before it will recognize it. This can be very frustrating if you don't, or never had those drivers. Sometimes, you have to reboot the PC host several times before it will recognize the peripheral device. Some devices will never be recognized by a PC host despite your best efforts.
This is one of the reasons why I changed over to MAC. However, I still often find myself in your situation.
One thing you can try is to download and install the drivers from the manufacturer of the external drive. A lot of this is compatibility issues between your host system and peripheral devices you want to connect, and downloading drivers may not be successful.
Another thing to try is to find a MAC user who will let you connect the external drive to their system. MACs tend to have their OS and most common device drivers resident on their system, so the process may be really seamless. Then, you could burn a CD-R or DVD-R with the files you want from the external drive. That disk should be readable by your PC host system.
Finally, the problem may lie in your external drive. I'll tell you that I have had a lot of external hard drive failures in recent years, and I suspect that is due mostly to the fact that, to keep prices competitive, manufacturers may be using hard drive units in the popular external drive market that are at the low end of the reliability scale. ie, when buying Caviar drives from WD, there are several categories, such as Green, Blue and Black, and they have differing reliability ratings, with differing prices. Enough said, except to say that, if you're buying an external drive to use in a reliability function, don't cheap out; spend the extra money.
Please feel free to contact me if you still have problems.

the clicking noise is the reader arm jumping across platters on your hard drive you have a dirty hard drive first clean all the dust from your computer specifically from around your hard drive using a high powered sucksion vacuum cleaner or a fine air blower from a air compressor making sure there is no moisture in the air lines then give the hard drive a firm tap on the side to free it up
hope this helps good luck

Hello,

Put your hard drive back into your system, listen to the sound after you have put it back.

If its spinning sound you heard, after you have put it back, it means the hard drive is still good, all you need do is to change the case.

But if after you put it back, the sound you get is a cracking sound or the kind of clicking sound your hard drive is making, it means the hard drive is bad and will need to be replaced.

Take care.

Then its probably just some hidden files that you cannot see. You might need to back it up on somthing. Then ormat your hard drive, but Idon't reccommend that. Hope this helps!?


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Buy a new one. If you drop a hard drive, the platters have a good chance of bouncing up and down which will make contact with the reader arm and damage the plates, and it could bend them. They are very sensitive devices and should never be jolted hard or this may very well happen. If it's still under warranty you may be able to get a replacement, depending on how smooth you talk to them.

install the drivers from iomegas website

If you just bought it, just take it back. Could be faulty.

ps if its an enclosure and you insert the hard drive
improperly, it will malfunction

Good Luck :0)

Yes your drive is dead. Drives are very delicate pieces of machinary. In many ways like a carton of eggs. Don't worry you can have the data retrieved from your hard drive by using this online company that I highly recommend:
http://www.gillware.com/

Sooo easy after a lot of research the fix is "format the disk in os x 10.4"

Sad but leopard have an issue with disk utility wiht this kind of disk .

Cause the original format is FAT 32 ,so....

The fix is format the disk in a mac with 10.4

i do it and works so fine !!!!!!

Clicking sound on an external hard drive is an indication that it's quiting to work. You mentioned that it's just stopped working, you may need to check the Disk Management of your computer to see if you could still reformat it. To do this, please follow the steps below:

FOR WINDOWS XP AND VISTA:

1. Make sure that the HD is properly connected to the computer.
2. Right-click 'My Computer' or 'Computer' folder and then go to "Manage".
3. Locate and click Disk Management.
4. Then, take note of the drive letters that will appear on the screen.
5. While the Disk Management window is opened, unplug the HD and check which drive letter will disappear.
6. If a drive letter disappears, then that is your external 250GB HD. You may reformat it to make it work again.

NOTE: Reformatting the HD will erase all the files saved in it. You may want to bring your HD in any data recovery center to retrieve the important files. If the HD didn't show up under your Disk Management, then there's nothing that we could do but to bring your HD in to the Data Recovery to save the files.

FOR MACINTOSH OSX:

1. Connect your HD to the computer.
2. Click 'Go' (located near the Apple icon, Finder, File, Edit and View).
3. Select Utilities and then click the Disk Utility Icon.
4. Take note the drive letters and then unplug the HD.

If a drive letter disappears, that's your HD. If nothing disappears, then the computer no longer detecting the HD.

Good luck!

Yes, absolutely, my only recommendation is that you use the Disk Utility to format it, so it's 100% compatible