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External FW HD-Can't Remount
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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I just spent too much money on a nice Firewire enclosure and a 300gb HD for it. Plugged it in, formatted it, put a few files on it for testing.. everything was going well.
I right clicked on the drive and ejected it.. thinking a safe thing to do before powering down the drive..
When I power the drive back up, it doesn't mount. It does not show up in Disk Utility. It only shows up in the System Profiler as an "Unknown Device".
I've tried rebooting both the computer and drive and reconnecting everything 10 different ways. I just can't get it to work.
What the ??????
Why does Apple have an eject button for external drives if it's going to destroy everything? 
Help!!
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Houston, TX
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Ejecting it didn't cause the problems. You absolutely should eject it before turning it off.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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As mduell states, ejecting is definitely the right thing to do and will never destroy data. Ejecting a disk unmounts it. Something else happened to that disk.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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Discovered the solution for anyone interested...
I plugged the drive in with a USB cable. It mounted. I unplugged it and tried again with the firewire cable. Hey, it worked.
What a terrible, unintuitive answer.
Anyone know WHY this happened?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Miami Beach
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No, but I was having a problem with remounting and this script helps me out:
tell application "Finder"
if not (exists the disk "74") then
do shell script "diskutil mount `disktool -l | grep '74' |
sed 's/.*\\(disk[0-9s]*\\).*/\\1/'`"
end if
end tell
Replace 74 with the name of your disk.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
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ok... i know this sounds extremely stupid... and i'm VERY new to mac... But what does that mean?
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Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
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Originally Posted by rozwado1 
No, but I was having a problem with remounting and this script helps me out:Replace 74 with the name of your disk.
I am curious as well. I have a problem that my firewire can be seen in Disk Utility, but won't mount (greyed), and I can't do any form of verifying through disk utility.
Any suggestions on what I should do ? I have tried this drive on 2 macs, and 1 PC.. still no visibility of it.
Hope someone can shet some light, in this unfortunate event. I got all my photos from 2006 :-(
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