[Mohammed Al-Sabah]

hi all!!


just pluged i my backup FW HD and its not mounting !!! getting a msg to inz the HD or ignore tried it on the other macs got the same msg ... tried Disk Utility with no luck .... after i verifu Disk tells me that it needs to be repaird i did repair like 20 times with no luck i still get " KEYS OUT OF ORDER"

someone please help? without these files i am reallllly screwd

[AssassyN]

Yikes...sounds like the hard drive just may have went bad.

You're only hope is finding a computer that doesn't think it's a bad drive (if in fact it's *not* bad). It doesn't sound too good considering you've had multiple computers tell you the same error message, but maybe a hard drive expert up here can inform you better.

Good luck w/ it man.

[CyberPet]

If you have DiskWarrior, run it! That's saved my FW disk many times.

FW disks are very sensitive how you turn them off... and also if there's a bad firewire cable.

So get a new cable, run DiskWarrior, then always drag the harddisk icon in the trash before you turn off the external FW drive, then unhook the cables.

After I've did that myself I haven't had any problems at all.

Hope this helps!

[Mohammed Al-Sabah]

dont have diskWarrior as for now ... is there any free SW that does it ? just called the shop that i get my mac SW from and they are out of it need to order online but that may take a while

any other way?!!??

[Mohammed Al-Sabah]

WOHOO DRIVE 10 worked FINE SHEW!! omg i am soo happy now

thx all for the feedback