Hard Drive Failure?

[trev]

Hey all,

I was doing a time machine backup and I had to cancel it because I had to jet. When I came returned and tried to backup again time machine didn't seem to cooperate. Now it's displaying nothing on my hard drive when I go into finder. However using "get info" reveals that there is actually 154 GB used on my HD, but again, finder cannot see anything. See the attached screenshot. Any ideas as to what's going on? Thanks!

 

[emt1]

You had to jet?

You should go into AirPort Utility and erase the drive.

 

[trev]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jet


and there are some important files on the HD that I'd like to have (that isn't part of the time machine backup folder)

 

[emt1]

This is a long-shot... but... did you try reseting the Time Capsule by holding down that little button on the back? It does nothing to the data on the hard drive.

 

[trev]

time machine, not time capsule

 

[emt1]

First I would try using disk utility to do a repair on the HD. If that doesn't work I'm afraid you will have to resort to using software like Data Rescue II.