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Very odd hidden harddrive problem

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juliancs

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Aug 24, 2006
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Hi folks.

I have a 1TB external harddrive plugged into my MBP, called "1TB". Now, when I set my WoW videos to record there, it recorded to a place called "1TB 1". I cannot find this anywhere. Sometimes, if I am installing something, the "1TB" and the "1TB 1" show up as two drives, as selectable drives. If I display all drives in terminal, both "1TB" and "1TB 1" are there. Under disk utility, the mount point of "1TB" is under \Volumes\1TB 1.

Does that make sense? And if so, how on earth do I find this 1TB 1 and delete/look at it? Does anyone know, why when set to record 1TB, it created a new thing called 1TB 1?

Many thanks and sorry fo the confusion - i dontknow how else to describe it.

Julian
 
Thanks fo the reply. This is what I get:

JulianCS:~ Julian$ ls -l /Volumes/
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 5 Julian admin 170 25 Mar 10:21 1TB
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 8 Aug 18:10 Macintosh HD -> /
drwxr-xr-x 1 Julian staff 8192 8 Aug 17:01 Untitled


"Untitled" is my windows partition. I know the 1TB is showing up, but it is disconnected.
 
Thanks for sticking with me on this. Nothin happens when I enter that command.

I restarted the computer with the harddrive detached, and put the
"ls -l /Volumes/" in again, and only
"total 24
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 8 Aug 18:10 Macintosh HD -> /
drwxr-xr-x 1 Julian staff 8192 8 Aug 17:01 Untitled
"
Showed up.

Hope this helps! Again, thanks so much, want to get this sorted!
 
When you connect the external drive now, you should see only "1TB 1" since we deleted the other mount point. You should be able to rename "1TB 1" to "1TB" if you like. Run an installer of any kind and check what hard drives show up.
 
If you only see "1TB" and not "1TB 1" then check and make sure that 1TB is valid; that it's accessing your external hard drive. If it is, then it sounds like it's fixed.
 
working as usual. The thing, there were recorded movies (from my game) on that "1TB 1". where are they now?
 
I hope you didn't have anything valuable in "1TB 1." I surmised that you had just started having this problem which is why I instructed to you delete "1TB 1," which is what "rm -rf" did. You also specified that you wanted to delete it in your first post. If you didn't backup anything from that folder through time machine or another method I'm afraid that it's lost. :( You could try running recovery software on the drive.

Edit: Aslo check and make sure they aren't on your external drive. If the mount point was "1TB 1" then the videos should have recorded to the root of the drive. If not, they have been deleted.
 
No, nothing important, jsut curious about the free space. Out of curiosity, why did we "delete" "1TB" and not type in 1TB 1?

Thanks so much for your help, by the way.
 
juliancs said:
No, nothing important, jsut curious about the free space. Out of curiosity, why did we "delete" "1TB" and not type in 1TB 1?

Thanks so much for your help, by the way.
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The mount points are automatically created when a drive is detected. Since that folder remained when the drive was disconnected, I had assumed it to be a static mount point that shouldn't be there.
 
Umm, I just opened my harddrive, and its blank...the one I was using. All 1TB of my data...
 
That shouldn't be the case. If the data was on the hard drive and it was disconnected then the data should all be there. Are you sure you were saving the data to the hard drive in the first place? We didn't touch the drive, and the mount point was "1TB 1" not "1TB" that we deleted.
 
Sorry, I'm a little shaken now - I've just lost about 6 years of data. What data are you talking about that I was saving? All I know is my drive is empty
 
What shows up in disk utility when the drive is connected? Nothing should be lost since we didn't touch the external drive. We only deleted a mount point from the internal drive. If the data was on the external drive then nothing has been deleted.
 
Just the 1TB. It tells me the whole drive is empty space - 931GB... so when we typed "rm -rf /Volumes/1TB", should we of not made that "1TB 1" ? Seeing as that was the unwanted phantom drive?
 
The "Volumes" directory contains mount points. If the 1TB drive was disconnected when you ran the "rm -rf" command, the only thing that could be deleted is a folder/mount on the internal drive. Nothing on the external drive was touched when that command was run. Are you sure that you had been saving data to the external drive all this time? Had you heard the drive operating, seen the activity light, etc.?
 
Well, yes - I had about 700GB of stuff there - would not have fit on my internal drive. Itunes can't find the songs on the drive, and if i double click to open, it tells me the full think is empty, and nothing shows up.

I'm running filesalvage on it now, but I dont have 1TB of space to load it off to.
 
Ok, let's try something. Go into the terminal, and type "diskutil list". Also type "ls -l /Volumes/". What is the output?
 
Output from first is:
"Julian$ 0: GUID_partition_scheme *298.1 Gi disk0
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 215.9 Gi disk0s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data 81.9 Gi disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *931.5 Gi disk1
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS 1TB 931.2 Gi disk1s2
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_partition_scheme *100.0 Mi disk2
1: Apple_partition_map 31.5 Ki disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS FileSalvage™ 100.0 Mi disk2s2
/dev/disk3
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIE #:0: FDisk_partition_scheme *2-bash: 0:: command not found
JulianCS:~ Julian$ 1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1
-bash: 1:: command not found
JulianCS:~ Julian$ 2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 215.9 Gi disk0s2
-bash: 2:: command not found
JulianCS:~ Julian$ 3: Microsoft Basic Data 81.9 Gi disk0s3
-bash: 3:: command not found
JulianCS:~ Julian$ /dev/disk1
-bash: /dev/disk1: Permission denied
JulianCS:~ Julian$ #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
JulianCS:~ Julian$ 0: GUID_partition_scheme *931.5 Gi disk1
-bash: 0:: command not found
JulianCS:~ Julian$ 1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk1s1
-bash: 1:: command not found
JulianCS:~ Julian$ 2: Apple_HFS 1TB 931.2 Gi disk1s2
-bash: 2:: command not found
JulianCS:~ Julian$ /dev/disk2
-bash: /dev/disk2: No such file or directory
JulianCS:~ Julian$ #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
JulianCS:~ Julian$ 0: Apple_partition_scheme *100.0 Mi disk2
-bash: 0:: command not found
JulianCS:~ Julian$ 1: Apple_partition_map 31.5 Ki disk2s1
-bash: 1:: command not found
JulianCS:~ Julian$ 2: Apple_HFS FileSalvage™ 100.0 Mi disk2s2
-bash: 2:: command not found
JulianCS:~ Julian$ /dev/disk3
-bash: /dev/disk3: Permission denied
JulianCS:~ Julian$ #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIE #:0: FDisk_partition_scheme *279.5 Gi disk3
JulianCS:~ Julian$ 1: DOS_FAT_32 UNTITLED 279.4 Gi disk3s1
-bash: 1:: command not found
JulianCS:~ Julian$
"

Output from second is:
"JulianCS:~ Julian$ ls -l /Volumes/
total 88
drwxrwxr-x 6 Julian staff 272 9 Aug 20:00 1TB
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 8 Aug 18:10 Macintosh HD -> /
drwxrwxrwx 1 Julian staff 32768 9 Aug 20:16 UNTITLED 1
drwxr-xr-x 1 Julian staff 8192 8 Aug 17:01 Untitled
"
 
Sorry I type that into Terminal? One of them is my windows partition and one of them is my other external haddrive that im using as a dump from the file recovery.
 
Yes, into terminal. Do both commands even though one is the internal drive because something is screwy with your system.

Edit: You need the quotes for the 1st one since it has a space in the name and you also didn't type "ls"
 
JulianCS:~ Julian$ /Volumes/UNTITLED 1/
-bash: /Volumes/UNTITLED: is a directory

Second:
JulianCS:~ Julian$ ls /Volumes/Untitled/
$Recycle.Bin Program Files
BASSMOD.DLL Program Files (x86)
BOOTSECT.BAK ProgramData
Boot Recovery
Config.Msi System Volume Information
Documents and Settings Users
Electronic Arts Warhammer Online - Age of Reckoning
Fraps Windows
Modstudio bootmgr
NVIDIA hiberfil.sys
PerfLogs pagefile.sys
JulianCS:~ Julian$
 
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