eric2006
iMovie Professional
Earlier today, I was working on backing up some old VHS tapes. I was burning (rendering at the time) one into a DVD, opened up iMovie to import another, and saw that the iMac (G5, 2 GHz, pre-iSight) did not see the movie camera (which was connected). I should mention that I was backing these up to an external FW drive before burning. Anyways, the firewire drive dismounted about the same time I opened up iMovie, destroying 3 hours of rendering. I got the drive to re-connect, but now it is severely messed up. First of all, it appears as a little white box, and not the orange firewire thing. The major problem, however, is the size of it. It's supposed to be 250 GB, but it shows up as everything but that. It shows the drive as a partition (see screenshots), and at every re-mount, the size changes. The main thing (called "DMI"?) varies in size from 6.5 GB to 1.2 TB (sweet!). I have tried rebooting, shutting down, disk utility on all volumes, new ports, different computers.. Disk utility quits from repairing with an error.. even when run from startup disk.
Oh, and sometimes it won't mount. I switch the drive on and off, then it mounts.
Obviously, I should reformat it, but it's going to take a while to get everything off (which I can still do for some odd reason..)
Suggestions, comments, and free money appreciated.
Oh, and sometimes it won't mount. I switch the drive on and off, then it mounts.
Obviously, I should reformat it, but it's going to take a while to get everything off (which I can still do for some odd reason..)
Suggestions, comments, and free money appreciated.