Hi all,
Start with the hardware...I have a Macbook Pro 2.4Ghz Santa Rosa Model (2007) running OS X 10.6.4, with a Western Digitial MyBook 640GB external, formated HFS. I also have a Boot Camp partition on my internal hard drive with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.
So I decided the other night to run disk utility on my External HDD - not for any particular reason except that I never ran it and thought it might be a good idea.
How wrong I was!
Since I've ran it, it popped up some errors, and then when I went to repair them, said it couldn't do it and I needed to reformat the disk. No way I was going to go down that easily as the drive has been working perfect before.
I don't remember the exact errors...something about "incorrect number of file hard links" or something.
So, I tried disk utility and a couple other tricks (fsck in terminal) get the drive to mount in OS X. No dice.
As mentioned, I have boot camp setup on this machine, as I use Windows 7 for gaming and some C++ programming for school. In Windows, the drive mounts just fine! I can access the files, copy to/from, everything works just fine. Tried Linux, same thing. No problems. The only time the drive won't mount is when I try to use it in OS X.
Now, I used this drive for Time Machine and as a media drive (music/movies/photos). Personally, I feel like the issue is due to time machine, as I know it creates "hard links" when it does its backups.
I really don't want to have to backup the files and reformat the disk...personally I don't have the space to store all the stuff on my internal drive, and I have no other externals. And the disk seems to be just fine, EXCEPT in OS X. That's the crazy thing.
My question to you: is there anything I can try to get this thing to mount in OS X again??
Thanks for your time.
Start with the hardware...I have a Macbook Pro 2.4Ghz Santa Rosa Model (2007) running OS X 10.6.4, with a Western Digitial MyBook 640GB external, formated HFS. I also have a Boot Camp partition on my internal hard drive with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.
So I decided the other night to run disk utility on my External HDD - not for any particular reason except that I never ran it and thought it might be a good idea.
How wrong I was!
Since I've ran it, it popped up some errors, and then when I went to repair them, said it couldn't do it and I needed to reformat the disk. No way I was going to go down that easily as the drive has been working perfect before.
I don't remember the exact errors...something about "incorrect number of file hard links" or something.
So, I tried disk utility and a couple other tricks (fsck in terminal) get the drive to mount in OS X. No dice.
As mentioned, I have boot camp setup on this machine, as I use Windows 7 for gaming and some C++ programming for school. In Windows, the drive mounts just fine! I can access the files, copy to/from, everything works just fine. Tried Linux, same thing. No problems. The only time the drive won't mount is when I try to use it in OS X.
Now, I used this drive for Time Machine and as a media drive (music/movies/photos). Personally, I feel like the issue is due to time machine, as I know it creates "hard links" when it does its backups.
I really don't want to have to backup the files and reformat the disk...personally I don't have the space to store all the stuff on my internal drive, and I have no other externals. And the disk seems to be just fine, EXCEPT in OS X. That's the crazy thing.
My question to you: is there anything I can try to get this thing to mount in OS X again??
Thanks for your time.