[mdcarter1]

I've got an external firewire drive that up until recently has been working fine. The last couple days though it has been exhibiting odd behavior. I have it partionioned into two. One partition seems to always work fine. The other one never mounts now. I opened up disk utility and it lists the missing volume but says it is unmounted. I ran repair on it because it said "bad catalog" or something. No dice. So i formatted it and it worked fine for a day or so. Now its back to not mounting again.

In addition to this problem, i've noticed that sometimes when i plug in the drive it will power on the disk, power off, power on a couple times. Something is obviously not right. Any ideas?

PS: Formatted in HFS+ if that is helpfull.

[bradoesch]

Originally posted by mdcarter1:

In addition to this problem, i've noticed that sometimes when i plug in the drive it will power on the disk, power off, power on a couple times. Something is obviously not right. Any ideas?

That doesn't sound good at all. When you disconnect the drive (if at all), are you dragging both partitions to the trash?

[mdcarter1]

Originally posted by bradoesch:
That doesn't sound good at all. When you disconnect the drive (if at all), are you dragging both partitions to the trash?

Yup. I know it doesnt sound good. Thats why i busted out the pack of DVD-R's and started burning tonight. :-)

[Macola]

I've had errors with several FW drives, and DiskWarrior has saved them all (even seemingly unmountable ones). Best software purchase I ever made!