External hard rive showing no information after being plugged into mac

plugged a external hardrive into my mac it had information from another format on it windows now its showing theres nothing on there when converting format to run with windows, i have ran a iskysoft data recovery program it seems like its found a lot of the files lost, when its says do you wish to recover them i obviously have to pay them for the full program. before i do this can any one help me out as dint want to waste the money if its not going to work. the files are not mac format so not sure if it will get them back????

osx is unable to read data from a different format. so your only option is to get to your data using windows or yes, pay heavily for third party software to retrieve.

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Nice one Apple...
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Why does mac add hidden files to an external hard drive when not ejected properly that prevents it from operating again on a Mac ?!!!!
How do i prevent apple from adding these hidden files?

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And those few steps were? Care to share?
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issuing standby command
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ATA device, with non-removable media
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Serial Number: WD-WCAL77403899
Firmware Revision: 08.02D08
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heads 16 16
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PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
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Security Mode feature set
* Power Management feature set
* Write cache
* Look-ahead
* Host Protected Area feature set
* WRITE_BUFFER command
* READ_BUFFER command
* DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
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SET_MAX security extension
* Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
* 48-bit Address feature set
* Device Configuration Overlay feature set
* Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
* FLUSH_CACHE_EXT
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* SMART self-test
* SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set
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* SCT LBA Segment Access (AC2)
* SCT Error Recovery Control (AC3)
* SCT Features Control (AC4)
* SCT Data Tables (AC5)
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not frozen
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smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
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Serial Number: WD-WCAL77403899
Firmware Version: 08.02D08
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Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
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=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
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Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (6951) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
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Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
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Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
No General Purpose Logging support.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 88) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x003f) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 236 124 021 Pre-fail Always - 708
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 098 098 040 Old_age Always - 2680
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 081 081 000 Old_age Always - 14289
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
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194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 123 092 000 Old_age Always - 27
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0012 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
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No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
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Last edited by foutrelis (2009-03-12 10:18:25)

Here is what i get when i try that command.:
$ sudo hdparm -B 254 /dev/sdc
/dev/sdc:
setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254)
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error
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$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdc
/dev/sdc:
ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: WDC WD800JB-00JJC0
Serial Number: WD-WCAM9N730552
Firmware Revision: 05.01C05
Standards:
Supported: 6 5 4
Likely used: 8
Configuration:
Logical max current
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heads 16 16
sectors/track 63 63
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LBA user addressable sectors: 156299375
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cache/buffer size = 8192 KBytes
Capabilities:
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Recommended acoustic management value: 128, current value: 254
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Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
Enabled Supported:
* SMART feature set
Security Mode feature set
* Power Management feature set
* Write cache
* Look-ahead
* Host Protected Area feature set
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* READ_BUFFER command
* DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
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* Device Configuration Overlay feature set
* Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
* SMART error logging
* SMART self-test
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* SCT Error Recovery Control (AC3)
* SCT Features Control (AC4)
* SCT Data Tables (AC5)
Security:
Master password revision code = 65534
supported
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not expired: security count
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