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audio99
July 12th, 2011, 10:27 PM
Hi everybody!

Problem:
My G Technologies external hard drive mounts inconsistently since the Pro Tools session I was working on today crashed. When it does manage to mount my Trash Bin on the dock fills up with trash automatically and this trash cannot be emptied.

In addition I have been unable to even open up my external hard drive on the desktop once it has mounted--I get the infinite pinwheel of death! If it does open, I'll eventually get to a folder that upon opening also brings up the pinwheel of death. Each time this happens I am forced to manually shut down my computer. Any suggestions? You help would be GREATLY appreciated! Thank you in advance.

I'm using a MacBook Pro with OSX 10.4.11 and it has a Intel Core 2 Duo processor. The ports I'm using with the external hard drive is Firewire 800.

Satcomer
July 13th, 2011, 05:37 AM
Then try to Reset Your PRAM (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379) to see if that helps.

nealt
July 13th, 2011, 10:45 AM
Try Disk Utility-Repair.