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FAILING FAILING Drive Help!

TheReef

TheReef

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Sep 30, 2007
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NSW, Australia.
Hi all,

Our new external hard drive (1TB Maxtor) has been giving io read write errors lately, and now will not mount at all. :eek:

Edit: I can't even reformat it, is it gone?

When connecting to any of my Macs it says Mac OS X cannot recognize the drive, please initialize it etc. It will not appear in the Finder at all.


So my idea:

  • Take the drive out and put it in my G5 (or G4 if it's not SATA).
    Would IO errors come from a bad drive, or from a bad controller?

    This would void my warranty obviously.


Any terminal tricks?


Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
 
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