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I Think my FW HD may have Died
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Washington DC
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About 20 mins ago, my computer experienced a kernel panic (my second one under 10.2.x). I attempted to reboot (in verbose mode) and it was unable to mount my external FireWire hard drive, repeatedly telling me that it was unavailable until I eventually just unplugged it and rebooted. Without the drive attached it booted up and runs just fine. If I reattach the drive it the access light flashes, but then it just sits there making an abnormal whirring (maybe a little on the grinding side) sound. I've never had to deal with bad hard drives before, so I really have no idea of what the problem might be. Is there anything that I can try to get the drive working again? It would really be a shame to lose everything on it as it's a 120G drive that's mostly full...
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Illinois
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You could try booting from the Jaguar CD and running disk utility from there (actually - have you tried disk utility at all yet?) If that fails, Disk Warrior is a good thing to try (saved me a couple of times). This is assuming that there is nothing wrong with the electronics of the drive and that it is just a disk corruption issue.
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Join Date: May 2002
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I had the same problem happen with my external drive. At this point, I am just going to wait and see if a new disk utility-like program comes out for osx and just try that. DiskWarrior claimed it was too badly messed up for repair, so I'm not sure if it will ever retrieve my data.
I might end up selling the hd after reformatting it, since its not needed anymore (I have a bigger internal hd now). Its an 80 gig OWC Computing Model (7200rpm).
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Washington DC
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Disk Utility doesn't see it either. Actually, it doesn't see any of my disks when I have the FW drive attached. I tried hooking it up with USB instead (it's a FW/USB2 enclosure) but that doesn't seem to be working either. Later I'll try putting a different drive in the same enclosure to try and see if the problem is with the drive or the enclosure.
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Madison, WI
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I've had this happen a few times with FW drives. I ended up removing the drive from the FW enclosure, putting it into another Mac, booting into OS 9, and running DiskWarrior. I guess this would only work if you had OS 9 drivers installed when you formatted the drive, but it's worth trying.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Washington DC
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It's formatted in UFS, and I no longer have any non-PowerBook Macs. :/
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