External HDD Won't Mount

May 26th, 2008, 01:19 PM

co11983

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External HDD Won't Mount

My machine has stop working after applying the latest security batch from Apple. I keep getting /etc/master.passwd: Invalid argument.

When I boot into single-user mode. I would like to mount my external HD, so I can backup my data, but the diskutil mount command just hangs.

mount -uw /
diskutil mount /dev/"deviceName"

Any ideas would be appreciated.

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diskutil, external hdd, mount

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