I plugged the Gigabank into my Mac laptop and it said it was backing up my entire computer contents. I then erased all of my pictures (assuming they were backed up) in order to make space for new softward. I loaded Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I now have something called a 'time machine' which appears to be a back-up but my pictures are not there. Are these 2 different backups? How do I access the Gigabank hard drive to look for my pictures? Help!

SOURCE: hard drive backup

Dear aspec,
First u try to perform scandisk the lap hdd. you also confirm wheather the bios is fully supproting the 250gb drive.



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SOURCE: backup hard drive to an external hard drive

"what the error actually says is, you have either run out of space, or the backup file (.bkf) is too large for this disk. note: if the disk is formatted with FAT32, the maximum possible size for the backup file is limited to 4 gigs."

That error means that the FAT32 file system only allows 4GB files or smaller to be transfered. The chance that the backup file (.bkf) is larger than 4GB suggests that this file is causing your problems. You could try manually copying around that file (selecting all files from that folder except the large one) and see if that works.

Usually you will get many errors copying a drive directly as system files will be inaccessible and whatnot. Your best bet is to limit your copying to "C:\Program Files\" and "C:\Documents and Settings\", assuming you have Windows.

SOURCE: mac cant find the hard drive

Clicking Hard drive When a hard disk makes a clicking sound and the computer does not detect it then the hard disk is faulty. This is commonly known as "The click of death".
There is no way of fixing this hard drive, if you need to recover your data, then there are companies that can recover data off faulty hard drives BUT it will cost you an arm and a leg for their services.