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TICKET ARCHIVE -> External Firewire Hard Drive Not Mounting Correctly

MacSD - Jun 1, 2005 - 1:03 pm

Hi,

I have an external Firewire hard drive with 3 partitions (3 volumes should mount). Recently, only two of the volumes mount. I'm running 10.3 and the problem seems to have come out of nowhere. There is a chance the voumes were not properly ejected, but I can't confirm that.

What I have tried...

- I zapped the PRAM
- Tried the drive on a Powerbook G4, and an older blue/white mac, both running OS X. Both only recognizing 2 of the 3 volumes.
- Ran the Mac OS X disc utility.
- Called Lacie who told me to run a disc repair program

Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Joe

earthsaver - Jun 1, 2005 - 1:10 pm

Does Disk Utility see the third volume? Have you tried mounting it from there? If you can mount it, then maybe you can eject the whole disk and remount it.

- Ben

MacSD - Jun 1, 2005 - 1:11 pm

Ben, thanks for the quick response.

The Disk Utility does see the third volume, but it won't let me mount it.

- Joe

Jeremie - Jun 1, 2005 - 9:54 pm

The only other idea that might work is a format of the drive

although not the best idea it is always worth a try am i right?

of course you would need to back up all your files first ^_^

confusing one eh?...
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Jeremie Bell