Peteofthenorth
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Specifics of my own issue:
new iMac 20 (latest iteration, firmware up-to-date), OSX 10.6.2
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
Recently instaled Snow Leopard.
Purchased: WD My Book Studio 1Tb.
Plugged in via Firewire 800, turned power on, recognized by Mac, Time Machine sees the drive pops up & is turned on. Everything seems fine Mac and drive appear to be working together well and the drive knows when to spin down and wake up in concert with Mac; backups happen. No problems accessing files and have stored a ton of info on it. As I am a wedding photographer.
Three weeks later It starts to act funny and was not showing up on the desk top only solution is to shut down (but no force quit required). Drive spins down after Mac is turned off unplugged from power, re-plugged spins up. Then it would work. Today it was working fine this morning and I left and it went to sleep I came back and it was gone from the desktop. Mac back on drive spins up and the first error hits: The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer, options to Initialize, Ignore or Eject. I Eject and reconnect. Same. I Ignore and try to locate in Finder nada. Power everything down unplug, replug, same again.
I try Disk Utility it can see the drive (or at least the controller) but cannot mount. All First Aid options grayed out. Erase and Partition both return Resource busy errors. I try fiddling with the power management to make sure its not being sent to sleep, then a variety of combination of hardware and software resets, with all connection combination's open to me (800/USB).
I tried to reinstall the firmware and nothing. I have two WD books the smaller book (500 MB) is fine. Is there any way of retrieving the info on the disk? Any way of rescue the HD? I appreciate it.
new iMac 20 (latest iteration, firmware up-to-date), OSX 10.6.2
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
Recently instaled Snow Leopard.
Purchased: WD My Book Studio 1Tb.
Plugged in via Firewire 800, turned power on, recognized by Mac, Time Machine sees the drive pops up & is turned on. Everything seems fine Mac and drive appear to be working together well and the drive knows when to spin down and wake up in concert with Mac; backups happen. No problems accessing files and have stored a ton of info on it. As I am a wedding photographer.
Three weeks later It starts to act funny and was not showing up on the desk top only solution is to shut down (but no force quit required). Drive spins down after Mac is turned off unplugged from power, re-plugged spins up. Then it would work. Today it was working fine this morning and I left and it went to sleep I came back and it was gone from the desktop. Mac back on drive spins up and the first error hits: The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer, options to Initialize, Ignore or Eject. I Eject and reconnect. Same. I Ignore and try to locate in Finder nada. Power everything down unplug, replug, same again.
I try Disk Utility it can see the drive (or at least the controller) but cannot mount. All First Aid options grayed out. Erase and Partition both return Resource busy errors. I try fiddling with the power management to make sure its not being sent to sleep, then a variety of combination of hardware and software resets, with all connection combination's open to me (800/USB).
I tried to reinstall the firmware and nothing. I have two WD books the smaller book (500 MB) is fine. Is there any way of retrieving the info on the disk? Any way of rescue the HD? I appreciate it.
