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#1
March 26th, 2008, 08:49 PM
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| External HD doesnt mount after plugging in Vista laptop Hey there, I have an external 60GB HD that I got out of my old laptop that im using in an external HD case that doesn't seem to want to mount anymore. I dont think I have dropped it and if I can recall (Haven't used it for about a month) the last time I used it was when I plugged it into my flastmates laptop with Vista just to see if vista could read mac formated HDs. Turns out it doesnt. I have just tried to use it again and now it doesnt work and the vista thing is the only action I can think that would have done anything to it. Anyone have any idea of wether I can save my HD?  |
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#2
March 26th, 2008, 09:26 PM
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| Does it show up in Disk Utility, or Hardware Profiler?
__________________ Power to Burn. At speeds of up to 733MHz, The most powerful Mac in history burns CDs, burns DVDs, and burns Pentiums - apple website, oct 4, 1999. advertisement for the powermac g4 |
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#3
March 26th, 2008, 09:43 PM
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| Doesnt show up in DiskUtility. Should it show up in the USB section of profiler? If it should - then it doesnt. When I first plugged it into a macPro at Uni it beeped a few times... I think a similar thing happened once before when I plugged it into an XP computer and when I took the HD into uni it showed up in Disk Utility so I reformated or something |
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April 1st, 2008, 09:41 PM
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| I would contact your hard drive manufacturer, it seems like this drive is toasted.
__________________ Power to Burn. At speeds of up to 733MHz, The most powerful Mac in history burns CDs, burns DVDs, and burns Pentiums - apple website, oct 4, 1999. advertisement for the powermac g4 |
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#7
April 13th, 2008, 12:38 AM
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| Ok, so this is what I have done. I brought my pBook into uni and hooked it up in target disk mode and plugged in my external to the iMac at uni also. I made all the hidden files visable on the system at I found some sort of evidence on my external HD. It shows the volume 'Tims External HD'. which is my External HD. but I can see it on the HD of my pBook when the External HD is infact hooked upto the iMac. Whats the deal with this? Im so confused |
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#8
May 4th, 2008, 05:34 PM
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| The saga continues. I finally got the HD to show up. I tried to verify the disk in disk utility and it said I needed to repair it so I did it and disk utility said: "Repairing disk for “Tims External HD” Mounting Disk(S,"Checking HFS Plus volume.",0) Checking Extents Overflow file. Checking Catalog file. Checking Catalog hierarchy. Checking volume bitmap. Checking volume information. Volume Header needs minor repair Repairing volume. The volume Tims External HD was repaired successfully. Repair attempted on 2 volumes 1 HFS volume repaired 1 volume could not be repaired" Is this good or bad? I thought I only had one volume ('Tims External HD') on the disk. If I reformat, will it be fine? |
