External Hard Drive Complications

Hello Everyone,
I've got an issue that no one seems to be able to help me with...I purchased a Western Digital My Passport Essential. I thought it worked like a big flash drive so I just plugged it in and moved all my photoshop, indesign and illustrator files to it from my macbook. I then deleted those files from my computer once they were on the external hard drive. I didn't change the format on the external hard drive before doing this so now pretty much all of my files won't open because my computer "can't read the format". I wanted to know if there was anything I could do to be able to open those files. PLEASE HELP.

jae5f9:
when I copied the files over, the resource fork got deleted or something because PC's don't read them, and that's what format my external HDD was in when I put the files on it. Do you know of any way to restore a resource fork?
Well, that is a bit of a pickly, isn't it? I am not sure how to change the resource fork. Your best bet might be to try a utility like Disk Warrior, although I am not sure if it will work. Your best bet will be to contact Alsoft's tech support by phone and see if they can advise you.
If the files on your backup are readable on your Mac you may be able to move the data, after installing the OS from disk, using the method described in A Basic Guide for Migrating to Intel-Macs
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