disk utility

I have a 1TB WD external hard drive that I previously had on a router. I am trying to get access to the drive as it would be good not to throw it out. I have it plugged in and when I look at Finder and Disk Utility it isn't there. When I open up Terminal and go to /Volumes, I can see it there...

How can I restore my Disk Utility App on my Mac G4 iBook PowerPC? Thank you!

[FONT="Garamond"]Hello! I found an old external Seagate 100gb drive that I had used a while back for backup on a laptop that was stolen from me. Anyhow, to make a long story sort of short. For the life of me I cannot remember what was so important that I just had to keep on that drive. SO...

I got an external hard-drive that doesn't show up on finder. On both Disk Utility and DiskWarrior it keeps mounting and un-mounting. Disk Utility when trying to repair, spits this out when it un-mounts... 2011-07-28 22:43:43 -0700: Problems were encountered during repair of the partition map...

PLEASE HELP I HAVE AN EXTERNAL 1TB LACIE FRIVE AND I UNPLUGGED THE DRIVE IN ERROR AND NOW DISK UTILITY SAYS UNABLE TO REPAIR DRIVE AS FOLLOWS PLEASE CAN YOU HELP ME AS ALL MY ITUNES MUSIC PICTURES ETC EVERYTHING THAT I HAVE COLLECTED OVER THE LAST 6 YEARS IS ON THIS EXTERNAL DRIVE THIS IS...

I have an external hd that I removed from a user's Mac workstation (it was fully functional) and I want to attach it to the OSX server. However, after attaching it to the server, I cannot see it in Disk Utility. It does show up under System Profiler under the connection type. I have tried...

Hi all My mac has been shutting down automatically, and today I run Disk Utility and it shows the following error message: "This drive has reported a fatal hardware error to disk utility. If the disk has not failed completely backup as much data as you can and then replace it with a...

I got a USB drive for christmas and can't seem to do anything with it on my macbook. When it's plugged in, i get a message saying "Error: Disk unreadable". Upon opening disk utility, it can't be seen, but nothing can be done to it for whatever reason. I'm looking to get the drive...

Hi, I am putting my photos on a Maxtor with 500 GB. I initially just allocated an 80 GB partition when I wasn't sure how I was going to use it, with another back up partition. Now that 80 GB partition is too small. So I have tried Disk Utility, which seems to let me grow the current...

k i had problems with my new 1tb hard drive in formatting to hfs from fat32, such as errors etc, but on the 3rd or so try, i got this to happen. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3078/2808044346_8846c32f57_o.png im not sure really whats happening, is it doing something? or is it just frozen, i...

Hello everyone, I purchased a black MacBook (10.4.11) last may and it's my first Mac. Thus far, I have only had one problem and that is that my I can't see my Motorola Z6m in finder or disk utility (but it is in system profiler). I also do not see it in Terminal under /Volumes. Inside the...

Will running the 'repair disk' disk utility on an external drive screw up any of the files on my external hard drive? I only want to run it because I can't transfer a file from my HD to the external...it's a 6 gig video file in quicktime format, and I'm getting 'error 1309', which I...

I am a Mac newbie so please bear with me with this request for advice. I just bought a Seagate 750 GB (698.6 Gb actual on disk) external firewire/usb drive as a backup device for my Intel iMac which has the same drive internally. It mounted perfectly and as it came formatted as FAT32 I used...

I have a G4 (silver) 10.3.9 with a Huge Raid and Atto UL4S Scsi card. I use it for FCP editing. I was testing out making a movie on the drive. When I hit enter to make the movie the drive beeped 6 times which the manual says is due to cabling, termination, disk time out, etc. But it says is not...

I ran Disk Utility a few times and tried to Repair the Disk Permissions. Every time I run it, the results are the same - i get a bunch of permissions fixed, but they keep coming back again. Is this normal?

OS 10.4.3 Powerbook 12" 1.5Ghz My hard drive was getting pretty full, so I freed up a whole load of space by deleting old mp3s and things that I no longer needed. I didn't delete anything else. I cleared about 7 gigs. I then used disk utility's 'erase free space' function to see if that...

I mentioned this in the general 10.4.3 thread, and I thought it solved itself, but the problem is creeping back. When I load Disk Utility, it hangs in the "gathering disk info" stage, before the contents are displayed. I have to force-quit it, which takes two or three tries to work, and when...

Here is the crash log. The file it is looking for is there! ********** Host Name: nealnt Date/Time: 2005-11-02 08:51:37.268 -0500 OS Version: 10.4.3 (Build 8F46) Report Version: 3 Command: Disk Utility Path: /Users/nealnt/Desktop/Disk Utility.app/Contents/MacOS/Disk...