Hi everyone~ I think my external HD is in great trouble:
One day while I was playing songs from iTunes, the external HD where I stored the entire music library made a slight clicking sound and then iTunes just went frozen including the OS. I'd no choice but to power off the G4 iBook in order to 'log out'. After that, he ext. HD wouldn't mount on the iBook until a couples of restart.
And here's what I found happened to some of the artist folders in the music library, they've turned into a Unix Executable File (UEF) icon!
Each of these UEF icons indicates a faulty size - e.g. 2.49GB as in 'Bob Sinclar'. The reason I call it faulty is because the Bob Sinclar folder should contain no more than 80 or 90 MB of data at most before it turned into an UEF icons.
I was going to run DiskWarrior but then my ext. HD is a FAT32 which a format it doesn't support.
My local Mac forum fellows believe it's a problem with the file system/directory and sadly, no one has a clue whether it can be fixed. The HD still runs fine but should I seek professional service before its too late?
Any input and discussion is greatly appreciated~
One day while I was playing songs from iTunes, the external HD where I stored the entire music library made a slight clicking sound and then iTunes just went frozen including the OS. I'd no choice but to power off the G4 iBook in order to 'log out'. After that, he ext. HD wouldn't mount on the iBook until a couples of restart.
And here's what I found happened to some of the artist folders in the music library, they've turned into a Unix Executable File (UEF) icon!
Each of these UEF icons indicates a faulty size - e.g. 2.49GB as in 'Bob Sinclar'. The reason I call it faulty is because the Bob Sinclar folder should contain no more than 80 or 90 MB of data at most before it turned into an UEF icons.
I was going to run DiskWarrior but then my ext. HD is a FAT32 which a format it doesn't support.
My local Mac forum fellows believe it's a problem with the file system/directory and sadly, no one has a clue whether it can be fixed. The HD still runs fine but should I seek professional service before its too late?
Any input and discussion is greatly appreciated~