Firewire HDD stopped mounting, shows up in profiler...
I'm running a G4 1ghz 12" iBook w/ OS X 10.3.9 installed. I have all current updates.
I am using an external firewire drive enclosure with an 80 gig maxtor HDD, where I keep all of my essential data. It was working fine until it just vanished off my desktop yesterday as I was updating my iPod (my iTunes library is on this drive, as well). I first checked my port, which is fine, rebooted a couple times, switched my FW cable, reset the drive a few times... nothing.
I go into Disk Utility and it appears (as it does in system profiler), but is greyed out (unmounted). When I click Mount, nothing happens. I can click it over and over and the drive doesn't mount.
When I run Repair / Verify I get this message:
Repairing disk for ?Secondary?
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Invalid key length
Volume check failed.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)
Repair attempted on 1 volume
\t0 HFS volumes repaired
\t1 volume could not be repaired
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In terminal, I attempted to find it so I could manually fsck it. Here is my log:
XXXX-Computer:~ rob$ mount
/dev/disk0s3 on / (local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (local)
fdesc on /dev (union)
<volfs> on /.vol
automount -nsl [295] on /Network (automounted)
automount -fstab [306] on /automount/Servers (automounted)
automount -static [306] on /automount/static (automounted)
XXXX-Computer:~ rob$ df
Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s3 58342896 30549360 27281536 53% /
devfs 180 180 0 100% /dev
fdesc 2 2 0 100% /dev
<volfs> 1024 1024 0 100% /.vol
automount -nsl [295] 0 0 0 100% /Network
automount -fstab [306] 0 0 0 100% /automount/Servers
automount -static [306] 0 0 0 100% /automount/static
---
I don't see it on there, and can't figure out what to do. I really need this data! Anyone have any ideas?
I am using an external firewire drive enclosure with an 80 gig maxtor HDD, where I keep all of my essential data. It was working fine until it just vanished off my desktop yesterday as I was updating my iPod (my iTunes library is on this drive, as well). I first checked my port, which is fine, rebooted a couple times, switched my FW cable, reset the drive a few times... nothing.
I go into Disk Utility and it appears (as it does in system profiler), but is greyed out (unmounted). When I click Mount, nothing happens. I can click it over and over and the drive doesn't mount.
When I run Repair / Verify I get this message:
Repairing disk for ?Secondary?
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Invalid key length
Volume check failed.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)
Repair attempted on 1 volume
\t0 HFS volumes repaired
\t1 volume could not be repaired
---
In terminal, I attempted to find it so I could manually fsck it. Here is my log:
XXXX-Computer:~ rob$ mount
/dev/disk0s3 on / (local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (local)
fdesc on /dev (union)
<volfs> on /.vol
automount -nsl [295] on /Network (automounted)
automount -fstab [306] on /automount/Servers (automounted)
automount -static [306] on /automount/static (automounted)
XXXX-Computer:~ rob$ df
Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s3 58342896 30549360 27281536 53% /
devfs 180 180 0 100% /dev
fdesc 2 2 0 100% /dev
<volfs> 1024 1024 0 100% /.vol
automount -nsl [295] 0 0 0 100% /Network
automount -fstab [306] 0 0 0 100% /automount/Servers
automount -static [306] 0 0 0 100% /automount/static
---
I don't see it on there, and can't figure out what to do. I really need this data! Anyone have any ideas?
Comments
I've spent the last week importing all my CDs into iTunes on this drive, and I really can't imagine the hell of starting over!!!! Someone with a fix please help!!
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
When a FW drive of mine went south due to a bridge board failure, it wouldn't mount in another enclosure. Data Rescue was able to see the data on the drive, though.
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
looks like this might be a solution, but i'm looking for a free one -- this looks to cost about $100, looks like i'll be reimporting to a new drive.