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David2213 · Apr 13, 2006, 01:39 PM

Is there a way to open and external hard drive in safe mode or something simillar? My backup drive wont mount and i really need to get some of the files off it. I've run it through disk utility and it says it needs to be repiared. I click repiar and after about a min it says that it cannot be repaired. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help.

john h · Apr 14, 2006, 08:34 PM

Do you have DiscWarrior or Drive Genius you could run on it before you open it up?

David2213 · Apr 15, 2006, 04:30 PM

I dont have either of those but ive tried TechTool Pro 4 and Data Resuce II. Niether worked so ill try those you mentioned. Thanks for the suggestions.

tooki · Apr 16, 2006, 06:40 PM

That's DiskWarrior, btw, lest your searches not work!

tooki

David2213 · Apr 18, 2006, 02:00 AM

So i ran both disk warrior and drive genius on the HD. I got nothing at all with disk warrior and on drive genius i can see the disk and i ran a scan of it and it says i have one bad block. Ive tried to mount it through this and it wont work. Whats a bad block? any other suggestions. Thanks for your help and patience.