Diskwarrior External Drive

Firstly I would test the hard drive on another Mac to see if it mounts correctly there. Also it's important to try a working drive on your computer to confirm that the USB or FireWire port on your Mac isn't defective. ...

I got it to boot up OK from an external firewire drive I have, but Disk Utility said it couldn't fix the drive and Diskwarrior also said it was irreparable. ...

cleanly" unmounts drives. You do not need to manually eject any external drives before doing either of those, as the system does it for you. ...

Sorry it's been so long in checking back. My apologies. To update my dilemma, the DiskWarrior worked well. I got a lot of "red ink" messages but I was able to preview the data on the external drive. ...

I tried DiskWarrior to recover the data, but it only works in NTFS. I am looking for a way to try and fix the drive and retrieve the data using a mac rather than a PC. ...

Call or email them. See if they can help you get it to mount. If you can get it to mount, then run DiskWarrior on it. ...

it can also allow you to see files which is what I did when my drive started to fail. Data Rescue may very well do that as well. ...

Thanks Natobasso, My optical drive is kaput, but I ran DiskWarrior last night (via firewire from my MacBook) to repair permissions but was not able to get past the blue screen afterwards. I have my bootable backup on my external drive (via SuperDuper) and hope that it can make a reinstall easier (if needed).

Hi. Don't know if anyone can help, as this is really a LACIE external problem, more so than a Mac issue, but the lacie external hard drive I have suddenly stopped appearing. I had a power outage the other day... ...

ken it back, but I bought the thing to store my data when I sold my previous machine. I need the space since my new machine has a smaller hard drive. Testing the drive with DiskWarrior has never uncovered any errors, even with the improper unmounts. ...