An external Harddrive suddenly stopped mounting yesterday. I have some very very important media on it which cant be lost.
At first my imac (specs below) wouldnt see it at all, it wouldnt appear on my desktop or in disc utility or diskwarrior. A few panicked hours later I ran diskwarrior again and it found the drive - overnight I left it to rebuild only to wake up to Diskwarrior hanging on Step 1.
So I have now got hold of the latest version of DW just in case that will help and have restarted the rebuild process (again the External HD wasnt seen by my imac until I ran DW)
Its currently again stuck at step 1.
I was wondering if anyone had a simailar problem to this before, what does it mean? Is it worth me leaving it at step one for days on end (the data really is that important) and if there is anything else I could do if DW fails to move on from step 1??
Specs for External HD
Name : Seagate FreeAgent Go Media
Type : Disk
Partition Map Scheme : Unformatted
Disk Identifier : disk1
Media Name : Seagate FreeAgent Go Media
Media Type : Generic
Connection Bus : USB
USB Serial Number : 2GE25JB4
Device Tree : /PCI0/EHC2@1A,7/@5:0
Writable : Yes
Ejectable : Yes
Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : No
Location : External
Total Capacity : 465.8 GB (500,107,862,016 Bytes)
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported
Disk Number : 1
Partition Number : 0
Imac
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.21f4
At first my imac (specs below) wouldnt see it at all, it wouldnt appear on my desktop or in disc utility or diskwarrior. A few panicked hours later I ran diskwarrior again and it found the drive - overnight I left it to rebuild only to wake up to Diskwarrior hanging on Step 1.
So I have now got hold of the latest version of DW just in case that will help and have restarted the rebuild process (again the External HD wasnt seen by my imac until I ran DW)
Its currently again stuck at step 1.
I was wondering if anyone had a simailar problem to this before, what does it mean? Is it worth me leaving it at step one for days on end (the data really is that important) and if there is anything else I could do if DW fails to move on from step 1??
Specs for External HD
Name : Seagate FreeAgent Go Media
Type : Disk
Partition Map Scheme : Unformatted
Disk Identifier : disk1
Media Name : Seagate FreeAgent Go Media
Media Type : Generic
Connection Bus : USB
USB Serial Number : 2GE25JB4
Device Tree : /PCI0/EHC2@1A,7/@5:0
Writable : Yes
Ejectable : Yes
Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : No
Location : External
Total Capacity : 465.8 GB (500,107,862,016 Bytes)
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported
Disk Number : 1
Partition Number : 0
Imac
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.21f4