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Hard Drive Won't Mount
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I'm not sure I'm in the right forum, but oh well.
I was passing a very large folder to my external hard drive when the computer I was using froze, so I had to shut it down manually. I get home and try to use the hard drive and it won't mount!
Disk Utility and System Profiler both fail to see the hard drive, but I it showed once when I ran "diskutil list" in Terminal.app. It said that it had a FDisk format. I did some googling and apparently my MBR is damaged/lost/whatever?
Does this means that I lost all my data? My school work? My precious music? 
Anyways, if someone could help me I would really appreciate it 
Thanks in advanced,
Hg+
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diskwarrior. get a copy now, run it. saved me twice when drives would not mount...
other ideas anyone? but diskwarrior is an essential tool (imho)...
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"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
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Thanks for the suggestion fisherKing. It worked! I analized the hard disk surface and in the process it mounted.
Thanks again
Hg+
PS: No, I did not lose my precious music.
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Make sure that from now on you have regular backups, especially if your music is so precious to you.
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Originally Posted by Hg2491 
Thanks for the suggestion fisherKing. It worked! I analized the hard disk surface and in the process it mounted.
Thanks again
Hg+
PS: No, I did not lose my precious music.
there's a horrible joke to be made here, but i'm trying to let it go...hope you analyzed that disk... glad it worked.
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"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
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Originally Posted by seanc
Make sure that from now on you have regular backups, especially if your music is so precious to you.
That is my backup disk. I had to send my Mac to Apple, so I'm using it as my main disk right now.
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Originally Posted by fisherKing
there's a horrible joke to be made here, but i'm trying to let it go...hope you analyzed that disk... glad it worked.
Go ahead.. lol.
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Just to be sure I formatted the hard drive to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I don't know if it was wise choice since I am around many Windows computers, but I mainly transfer files to Mac OS X and Ubuntu.
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