Internal drive won't mount

**Fahrvergnuugen** · September 14th, 2004, 09:59 PM

I've got a dual 2GHz G5 with two 250GB SATA internal drives. One day after a reboot the secondary drive didn't show up on the desktop. I ran a surface scan with tech tool pro and its reporting that there are 2 bad sectors on the drive.

Apple's Disk utility on the other hand, says that the drive is fine

Code:

Verifying volume “Space”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume Space appears to be OK.

1 volume checked
	HFS volume verified

If I click the "mount" button in disk utility, it hangs for a few seconds and then nothing happens. The disk won't mount.
Any ideas?

**Satcomer** · September 14th, 2004, 10:57 PM

Well, something may be wrong with the drive. Could TechTool Pro fix the two bad sectors? Try to do that. If it can, then great. If not, Boot from an OS X disk and try to discover it and reformat it.

**Zammy-Sam** · September 15th, 2004, 02:47 AM

Does the drive show up in the Profiler? If so, what does the S.M.A.R.T. line say? Verified?
Just for fun: did you repair permissions?

**Fahrvergnuugen** · September 15th, 2004, 06:44 AM

S.M.A.R.T. checks are fine. The repair permissions button is grayed out... I'm assuming because its not mounted. I don't see a way in TTP to fix bad blocks, I only see the surface scan utility.

I really need to figure out some way to rescue my data, TTP doesn't seem to have anything that can do it if the drive isn't mounted.