So today, I was updating my Leopard with that 4mb update. At the same time, Spotlight was indexing my external HD. I thought, what the heck, I'll reboot and it should resume the indexing after.
However, after I rebooted, my external HD is no longer recognized. By default, it is connect with FW400. It had two partitions on it and sometimes, I see one of them on my desktop, but not the other. Moreover, in Disk Utility it shows that it was 0 kb writable.. (See attachment)
However, when I connect it with USB 2.0.. it shows up as a 2TB HD... (See attachment)
Something is obviously wrong with my hard drive... When it starts, I hear spinning noises that I have never heard before..
I don't know what to do anymore... Althought the HD didn't contain any important information, I would like to recover it if possible. I tried powering down everything, removing all FW/power cable and wait an hour, no luck. I tried resetting the PRAM, nothing changed.
Any suggestions? The thing is the HD was working perfectly fine, I did not move it physically and it started acting weird after my update reboot.
Is it possible that spotlight damaged the HD physically while indexing? I doubt...
Thanks.
However, after I rebooted, my external HD is no longer recognized. By default, it is connect with FW400. It had two partitions on it and sometimes, I see one of them on my desktop, but not the other. Moreover, in Disk Utility it shows that it was 0 kb writable.. (See attachment)
However, when I connect it with USB 2.0.. it shows up as a 2TB HD... (See attachment)
Something is obviously wrong with my hard drive... When it starts, I hear spinning noises that I have never heard before..
I don't know what to do anymore... Althought the HD didn't contain any important information, I would like to recover it if possible. I tried powering down everything, removing all FW/power cable and wait an hour, no luck. I tried resetting the PRAM, nothing changed.
Any suggestions? The thing is the HD was working perfectly fine, I did not move it physically and it started acting weird after my update reboot.
Is it possible that spotlight damaged the HD physically while indexing? I doubt...
Thanks.
