[tramahound]

I think my hard drive died in my owc firewire enclosure. It worked fine yesterday, but today I brought it to work and plugged it in only to find it wasn’t mounting. So I opened up Disk Utility and it showed it, but didn’t show the name I gave it, just the title “disk2s3” where the name would be. In Disk Utility under First Aid when I try to verify the disk I get a failed message saying “The underlying task reported failure on exit.” It says “invalid node structure” “The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)”
When I try to repair it says that it’s trying to catalog the B-tree but fails saying the same error as above.
What can I do?!

[f1000]

1. Run DiskWarrior
2. If DiskWarrior indicates a hardware malfunction, quit and:
a) Download the Data Rescue X demo.
b) See if the demo can recover any critical files.
c) Purchase the full version to recover these files.
d) Run DiskWarrior again and let it finish this time.
e) If DiskWarrior successfully resurrects your hard drive, copy off any additional files. Don't move files around or delete them; that could kill your drive again.
f) Get a new drive.

Be thankful you made backups.

[tramahound]

strange turn of events. eventually yesterday the effected fw drive would not mount or even show up at all under Disk Utility. I connected it internally to the G4 and it worked fine. I then brought it back home and tried it on my G5 inside the fw enclosure. It mounted and transferred just as it always had. I couldn't back everything up as my home movies are close to 60gigs worth and i have no other drives that large. So I brought it in today again to work and now it shows up but cannot be mounted via fw. I'm running tests in techtools pro 4, but it seems to be passing all of them. it's scanning for bad sectors very slowly right now, but other than that it's showing as being fine. what gives? I was ready to blame the enclosure, but if it works fine on one system then how could it be? my ipod works fine on the work g4 connected using the same cable to the same fw input too. any ideas now?