External WD Hard Drive Won't Mount

[EvanCourtney]

500GB Western Digital USB External My Book Essential Hard Drive
10.5.4 iBook G4

My 500GB has two volumes on it.
Recently the hard drive fell from desk and now only one of the volumes mounts.

I've ran Disk Utility on it, and the volume shows up, but it won't verify it.
It throw an error of "Invalid Index Key"

And then when I try to repair it, it doesn't.

I ran SpinRite on the drive, but no luck.

Any ideas?

 

[miles01110]

Are there any clicking noises? Have you tried DiskWarrior? It's probably dead if it dropped from the desk.

 

[EvanCourtney]

Disk Warrior worked.
It.
All data restored.
thanks. rebuilded

 

[killwill169]

Actually, the reason is probably that you unplugged the western digital external passport / hard drive before you ejected it. It's happened to me before, and I had to wait up to an hour because the computer probably had to process the data and index it so that you could read it. Just a theory. A good solution: don't unplug your hard drive before ejecting.