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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External Drive will no longer mount onto Macbook. solutions?
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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.
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.
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.
Have you tried booting from the OS X install disk and using that disk utility?
nope not yet. but when I tried to repair it, it said something about "b-trees" or something like it.