External Drive will no longer mount onto Macbook. solutions?

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  1. WillMak, Mar 17, 2007

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    Hey guys I have been using an external drive that will no longer mount onto my macbook. I have some files that I would like to recover on it, is there anyway to repair this? When I try to repair it using the disk doctor it will say somesort of error has occured and stop the repair.
     
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  2. iBookG4user, Mar 17, 2007

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    Go to spotlight and search for Disk Utility and open it. Then select the external hard drive and go to repair disk. See if that works and gets the drive to mount.
     
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  3. WillMak, Mar 17, 2007

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    Oops I typed disk doctor instead of disc utility in my OP. but yea it says an error has occured when I click on repair. :( :( :( :(
     
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  4. iBookG4user, Mar 17, 2007

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    Have you tried booting from the OS X install disk and using that disk utility?
     
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  5. WillMak, Mar 17, 2007

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    nope not yet. but when I tried to repair it, it said something about "b-trees" or something like it.
     
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