I am having the worst series of problems!

[Mushrooshi]

It all started when Windows became the most retarded idiot and wouldn't remove it's stupid Pagefile.sys, no matter how many times I tried to delete it, from going and doing it from Mac OS X, to going in windows and trying to delete it, to going in the modifyng the settings.

I dn't have much on my Bootcamp partition anyway, so I just nuke it and make another...

But bootcamp is unable to make a partition, and it turns out the disk is corrupted with wrong volume space free block counts. Techtool, Disk Utility, fsck -fy, they don't work.

Finally, techtool decided to be stupid, and it actually ruined my Mac OS X partition.

So i reinstall Tiger, and I am lucky my files are intact and only the system got screwed up.

Unfortunatly, everything has gone to hell, and for some reason I cannot access my external drive after using iPartition. It works on my sister's windows laptop, but not on my mac.

So I use my sister's laptop to defragment the disk... but this time Windows decided to corrupt a few files with its "SOME FILES CANNOT BE MOVED U SUCK BTW ALSO THE DATA IS LOST CYA"

I haven't found corrupt files, but it might be corrupted.

 

[blodwyn]

So, if I understand correctly, your current problem is that you can't mount your external drive on your Mac/Tiger system, and it may or may not be corrupted.

Re the external:
- Is it USB or Firewire?
- Is it formatted in FAT32 or NTFS?

You don't say what the current situation is when you connect the drive to a Windows system, but if you can, I would use Windows to copy as much of the data off of the external to some other drive. That way you have a backup, and can try to reformat the external and copy the data back.

 

[Mushrooshi]

Mix of NTFS, Fat32, and Mac OS HFS+

USB

When I connect the drive to Mac OS X, it doesn't mount. I go into Disk Utility, and Terminal Disk Util, and both programs hang and do nothing.

When connected to Windows, it does everything "normally", connects "normally", and is normal in general.

 

[blodwyn]

Mix of NTFS, Fat32, and Mac OS HFS+

So, it has 3 partitions

USB

Does it have a power supply or is it powered from the USB port, and if so are you plugging it straight into your Mac or into a hub, and is the hub powered?

 

[Mushrooshi]

It runs directly off of the Mac's power.


STUFF: 133.02gb, Fat32
POOP: 7.5 GB Fat32
HOTSPOT: 6.49gb, Fat32
UTILITIES: 2.03GB, Fat32

I forgot I had formatted a few disks, so they are all FAT32.

ALSO:

My Mac seems to be able to connect to the drive.

Here is thing:

It is plugged in via USB.

Diskutility cannot recognize it
FInder cannot recognize it
Terminal (diskutil) cannot recognize it.
iDefrag cannot recognizes it


HOWEVER:
iPartiton recognizes it
Windows recognizes it
Techtool recognizes it

SInce 2 programs on MAc OS X can recognize it, but the programs included on Mac OS x can't, is it a problem with Mac OS X?