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Anonymous Posted on Jun 09, 2018

I-easy drive, when plugged to the mac in i get "the disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" or on the iPhone the message is "External: open-air error. path = /" how can I clear this error

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Dec 09, 2008

SOURCE: external hard drive can not be read by the computer

The hard drive was originally formatted for a PC and I was using it with Mac products. I had to delete all the information on the hard drive so that I could reformat the external hard drive to work with my Macbook Pro. 

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jul 10, 2009

SOURCE: My WD 2T external My Book hard drive is not working

You will need to try formatting the drive. You can do this from the drive management section on the Mac.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Aug 26, 2009

SOURCE: my WD 250GB passport portable hard drive is not recognized

If your system detects the connected device that is a good start. Was the drive formatted for another operating system? Certainly try the drive on another system and/or another drive on your system.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Sep 06, 2009

SOURCE: The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer

The Disk inserted dose not work

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Apr 05, 2010

SOURCE: my computer no longer recognized my hard drive

did your computer device manager recognized your external drive? did disk management recognized you external drive? let me know.

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