Simpletech external drive

[sarah__kate]

I just got the black cherry hard drive, and I moved my itunes library, and everything was working fine. I figured I had a day to back it up to dvd. When I came back thismorning, it's not being recognized by the computer. I ran a repair on the disk utility, and it says there's an error at the end and I just don't know what to do. The tech support is closed for the holiday and I'm going crazy. Please help!

[Natobasso]

A few questions:

1. How did you format the drive? It's recommended to format it Mac OS Journaled for best mac usage.
2. Is your computer fully updated? Don't go to OS X 10.5.6, it's awfully buggy still, but update as high as you can before that, 10.5.5 if possible to ensure your computer has the necessary drivers for this new hard drive you have.

It's hard to tell what drive you have. Is it this one?
http://www.simpletech.com/site_cms/parts/fsu25320h.htm

If so, check out the user manual on simpletech's site to see if it's compatible with Mac OS X. Let me know which one you have and I'll help look.

[Satcomer]

Disconnect the hard drive and then Reset Your PRAM. Turn off the external hard drive while the Mac reboots. Once the Mac boots up turn the external on and connect it to the Mac to see if it will mount, hopefully. If it mounts immediately go to /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility and use Disk Utility to repair the external disk and fix it's permissions.

Good Luck and Happy New Year.

[DeltaMac]

Originally Posted by sarah__kate

I ran a repair on the disk utility, and it says there's an error at the end and I just don't know what to do.

Can you come back with the exact text of that error, when running Disk Utility on your external hard drive?

[sarah__kate]

I formatted it as Mac OS X...not journaled? because I didn't know what that was, and the default was without it.

My OS X is 10.4.11 right now, and yes, that is the hard drive i have. It's mac compatible, and came with instructions on formatting it.

the error i receive says " The underlying task reported failure on exit." ..more specifically :

Verify and Repair disk “bianca”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Invalid node structure
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Invalid node structure
Invalid node structure
Volume check failed.

Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit

[DeltaMac]

That's bad luck with a new drive! I hope you didn't remove your iTunes library from your internal drive!
If you have data that you would like to keep, you may need to try a more powerful disk repair software, such as DiskWarrior.
Otherwise, - New Drive, failing quickly (those are major errors!) - get a replacement/refund. Or, you get to use the warranty on that drive

[sarah__kate]

well that's the problem; my library was so large, I had to remove it from my internal drive..the computer was so slow! I just ran out of time when I was moving files to back them up to a dvd. So those errors are gigantic and not something I can fix on my own?

[Natobasso]

Try the "PRAM Zapping" Satcomer gave to see if that fixes the problem:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379