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HELP ME SMART NEWSCHOOLERS

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Deezy
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ok media and arts...
this is media helping arts...
my external drive broke a while ago with all my photos, videos and backups on it.
i plugged it in today and its barely working, so i wanna back up as much as i can. (then get a new drive)
i have a 1 TB WD "My Book" drive and its being a bitch,
it wont let me just drag the files onto it, i have installed this user backup thing, but its just not working.

has anyone used these? does anyone know whats up? should i portion it? fully restore it? how do i do any of that? (disk utility... but gah)

any/all help is very apreciated, please help NS

broken drive is just under 500GB
working drive is 1TB
and i have little room left on my macbook (macbook pro 10.5.8)

in advance THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU
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@ScubaSteve
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is it formatted for Mac OS extended (journal)?
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Deezy
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i dont know. how do i check?

i rly dont like it, i like the bus drives that are just like one big folder
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@ScubaSteve
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open disk utility, click on your drive, go to the erase tab, format.....

if you format it all your data will be deleted, so make sure its backed up
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Deezy
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the 1TB is brand new... got it at an auction for 17 bucks/claim

but its just the shit they put on it when u get it, do i need any of that?
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@ScubaSteve
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hmm..can't say 100%. But deleted them for years
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TWoods
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you shouldn't. Formatting it for mac with your disk utility (like said above, "journaled") should make it just work like a flash drive - plug it in and start using it. I have 3 WD externals, that's what I did to each of them
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eheath
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do this for the 1tb
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