I have a MacBook Pro, Leopard. I've bought and used Western Digital external hard drives, formatted for Mac and they've worked fine. They're all connected through firewire. The newest one I bought let me load files into it, but now it won't let me retrieve or load any more files to it. I make sure all other programs are not running, so I know it's not lack of power. I tried the unplugging and plugging routine, didn't work. There's about 400 gigs in the drive that I need - the drive is 1 terabite. Now when I turn on the computer with the drive attached it says this computer cannot read the drive. It asks me if I want to initialize, ignore or eject. I'm afraid of losing the videos I have on the drive if I initialize. What will the initialize command do? Thank you for your thoughts.
A Slater
