Messed up my External Hard Drive

[lancestraz]

I was screwing around with the permissions on one of the partitions of my external hard drive and it gave me an error. After that, when I plug it in nothing appears in the Finder. This is what Disk Utility look like (attached pic).

I don't really care about the "MacBook Pro Backup" partition, but the "Lance's Stuff" partition has a lot of stuff on it.

 

[seany916]

Wish I could help. Know that I sympathize with you.

 

[plinden]

Can you open a Terminal, then tell us what you get with:

cd /Volumes
ls -la

You may have just changed the permissions to not be readable. If so, you should be able to fix it with a chmod in terminal. I doubt that you've damaged anything in the drive just screwing around with permissions, unless there was a pre-existing problem.

 

[lancestraz]

Can you open a Terminal, then tell us what you get with:

cd /Volumes
ls -la

You may have just changed the permissions to not be readable. If so, you should be able to fix it with a chmod in terminal. I doubt that you've damaged anything in the drive just screwing around with permissions, unless there was a pre-existing problem.

OK. This is what I get.

iMac-G5:~ Stracensky$ cd /Volumes
iMac-G5:/Volumes Stracensky$ ls -la
total 8
drwxrwxrwt    5 root      admin      170 Jul  7 06:31 .
drwxrwxr-t   28 root      admin     1054 Jul  6 14:02 ..
d---r-xr-x    9 Stracens  Stracens   408 Jul  6 16:43 Lance's Stuff
d---rwxr-x   31 Stracens  Stracens  1156 Jul  6 15:41 MacBook Pro Backup
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root      admin        1 Jul  6 14:02 Macintosh HD -> /

 

[Mernak]

d---r-xr-x    9 Stracens  Stracens   408 Jul  6 16:43 Lance's Stuff
d---rwxr-x   31 Stracens  Stracens  1156 Jul  6 15:41 MacBook Pro Backup

Looks like you do not have read/write permission to those folders. When I tried to replicate your problem with my flash drive, the exact same thing happened. I fixed it by

chmod =rwxrwxrwx /Volumes/Files
so for you..
chmod =rwxrwxrwx "/Volumes/Lance's Stuff"
chmod =rwxrwxrwx "/Volumes/MacBook Pro Backup"

The eject the drive via Disk utility and plug it back in

Disclaimer: This worked for me. This don't NOT guarantee that it will work for you

 

[lancestraz]

d---r-xr-x    9 Stracens  Stracens   408 Jul  6 16:43 Lance's Stuff
d---rwxr-x   31 Stracens  Stracens  1156 Jul  6 15:41 MacBook Pro Backup

Looks like you do not have read/write permission to those folders. When I tried to replicate your problem with my flash drive, the exact same thing happened. I fixed it by

chmod =rwxrwxrwx /Volumes/Files
so for you..
chmod =rwxrwxrwx "/Volumes/Lance's Stuff"
chmod =rwxrwxrwx "/Volumes/MacBook Pro Backup"

The eject the drive via Disk utility and plug it back in

Disclaimer: This worked for me. This don't NOT guarantee that it will work for you

Yay! It worked. YourageniusIloveyou!
I thought I was sunk.
Thank you.

 

[Mernak]

Glad I could help.