Guys I'm having a very peculiar issue and I need help.
I have a 1.5TB MyBook Studio that I have been using as a Time Machine drive for probably 3 or 4 years. This drive is now full, and Time Machine has started deleting old backups to make room for new ones. Because of this, I wanted to transfer my Time Machine files over to a bigger 4TB Seagate I recently got.
I found simple instructions on how to do this on the Apple website. Basically you just turn Time Machine off, and copy the Backups.backupdb folder to the new drive. I started doing this, but after 15 minutes, my macbook pro (on OSX 10.6.8) still said it had transferred Zero KB out of 800GB.
This didn't seem normal that it was so slow, so I decided to cancel the copy and re-try a bit later. I also wanted to verify that the Backups.backupdb folder was only 800GB so I right click the folder and "Get Info." It says "Calculating Size" for several minutes, never giving me a size. I grow impatient and decide I better just restart the computer and try this all again. Restarting tends to fix my issues when something is acting funny.
As the macbook pro is shutting down, a pop-up about a drive not being ejected properly comes up. This is probably from a different 500GB external I have hooked up to a USB interface. It is USB powered. I only switched it to my USB hub bc I needed the faster USB port on the macbook pro for this big Time machine transfer, but the drive doesn't seem to like that hub and is possibly getting ejected if it loses power from the hub for a millisecond. That drive is currently working fine.
Anyway, when the Mac restarts, the MyBook Studio wont mount. The partition of pre-installed software mounts, but my data partition with my Time Machine backups will not mount. The white light on the drive is constantly flashing and it seems to be spinning. I try turning the drive off and on, and restarting my mac a couple times, but the drive wont mount. I restart one more time, and now even the pre-installed software partition does not show up. The drive does not show up in Disk Utility. The drive will not show up on a Windows laptop either. It says the USB device is not recognized, and the drive does not show up in Device Manager. I tried the firewire and the USB ports on the MyBook Studio, so it's clearly not related to a particular port.
I tried R-Studio to recover the data, but the drive does not even show up. It's currently a brick.
Can anyone give me some ideas on how to get this drive working again or how to get my data off of it? I am thinking that the MyBook Studio uses some type of data encryption, so even if I pull the SATA drive out of the WD enclosure, I wont be able to read from it. Is this accurate?
I really don't understand what happened. As of 10:59PM, Time Machine made a successful backup to this drive. Now it's 2:30AM and I have a brick that slowly went from mounting only the Manufacturer's partition with a consistently blinking white light, to mounting nothing at all with a slow paced white blink.
Any help is greatly appreciated
I have a 1.5TB MyBook Studio that I have been using as a Time Machine drive for probably 3 or 4 years. This drive is now full, and Time Machine has started deleting old backups to make room for new ones. Because of this, I wanted to transfer my Time Machine files over to a bigger 4TB Seagate I recently got.
I found simple instructions on how to do this on the Apple website. Basically you just turn Time Machine off, and copy the Backups.backupdb folder to the new drive. I started doing this, but after 15 minutes, my macbook pro (on OSX 10.6.8) still said it had transferred Zero KB out of 800GB.
This didn't seem normal that it was so slow, so I decided to cancel the copy and re-try a bit later. I also wanted to verify that the Backups.backupdb folder was only 800GB so I right click the folder and "Get Info." It says "Calculating Size" for several minutes, never giving me a size. I grow impatient and decide I better just restart the computer and try this all again. Restarting tends to fix my issues when something is acting funny.
As the macbook pro is shutting down, a pop-up about a drive not being ejected properly comes up. This is probably from a different 500GB external I have hooked up to a USB interface. It is USB powered. I only switched it to my USB hub bc I needed the faster USB port on the macbook pro for this big Time machine transfer, but the drive doesn't seem to like that hub and is possibly getting ejected if it loses power from the hub for a millisecond. That drive is currently working fine.
Anyway, when the Mac restarts, the MyBook Studio wont mount. The partition of pre-installed software mounts, but my data partition with my Time Machine backups will not mount. The white light on the drive is constantly flashing and it seems to be spinning. I try turning the drive off and on, and restarting my mac a couple times, but the drive wont mount. I restart one more time, and now even the pre-installed software partition does not show up. The drive does not show up in Disk Utility. The drive will not show up on a Windows laptop either. It says the USB device is not recognized, and the drive does not show up in Device Manager. I tried the firewire and the USB ports on the MyBook Studio, so it's clearly not related to a particular port.
I tried R-Studio to recover the data, but the drive does not even show up. It's currently a brick.
Can anyone give me some ideas on how to get this drive working again or how to get my data off of it? I am thinking that the MyBook Studio uses some type of data encryption, so even if I pull the SATA drive out of the WD enclosure, I wont be able to read from it. Is this accurate?
I really don't understand what happened. As of 10:59PM, Time Machine made a successful backup to this drive. Now it's 2:30AM and I have a brick that slowly went from mounting only the Manufacturer's partition with a consistently blinking white light, to mounting nothing at all with a slow paced white blink.
Any help is greatly appreciated