The HDD has it's own power supply. Yes, my friends mac is newer. I chose USB so that i can use it on both my mac and linux computer. I will try to get a hold of a PCI USB 2.0 card to see if that will solve the problem. Until then i will go with out an external HDD.
USB and no i do not have a PCI USB 2.0 card. When i plugged it in 5 minutes ago i got a volume not recognized message and i clicked initialize and it brought me to disc utility and i still get the same I/O error message.
I bought a brand new 500Gb WD external HDD a couple days ago and it will not mount but it shows up in disc utilities. When i go to disc utilities and try to format it for my mac i get an I/O error right away. So then i give it to my friend who also has a mac and he was able to format to HFS. I...
