I have a G4 mirrored drive doors Mac. I have a Western Digital (I know, junk...) 1 Tb external hard drive hooked up via USB. It mounts, with effort--numerous tries plugging and unplugging, running disk utilities seems to give it a push. The problem is that it will open several times, and then seemingly at random, instead of opening, it freezes the finder. This happens with both a double click and "command O". I've checked the drive with disk utilities, and it claims the drive is OK. But clearly it's not. I am in the process of backing it up so I can throw it in the garbage, but until then, it's a problem. Is there any way to unfreeze the system other than pulling the plug? (force-quit-reboot won't work) Any thoughts on what might be wrong with the drive and if it can be easily fixed? Thanks...
PS--I have other drives (not WD) hooked up via USB and firewire--all mount and open with no problems whatsoever.
PS--I have other drives (not WD) hooked up via USB and firewire--all mount and open with no problems whatsoever.