External Fire Wire HD Problems!!

Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Don't lecture me on backing stuff up, but I have an external FireWire Hard Drive with important work on that I *have* to get hold of!



Running Disk Utility gives me the following error (the disk is partitioned into two drives):



Repairing disk for ?disk5s9?

Volume check failed.



Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)



Repairing disk for ?disk5s10?

Volume check failed.



Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)



Repair attempted on 2 volumes

\t0 HFS volumes repaired

\t2 volumes could not be repaired



Any help and advice gratefully recieved!

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 6
    Are you using Panther? I know that Panther had some problems with Fire Wire Hard-Drives. If the information ONLY EXISTS ON THE HARD DRIVE, you might try something like Disk Warrior. If it exists in other places, try to update the firmware on the HD. I wish i could help you more, and i wish you much luck.



    ~Miscstudent
  • Reply 2 of 6
    arbernautarbernaut Posts: 182member
    But would Disk Warrior solve this problem? I'd hate to spend $89 for it not to work...



    Any suggestions?
  • Reply 3 of 6
    jwri004jwri004 Posts: 626member
    Even if it doesn't work DW is always a good investment....



  • Reply 4 of 6
    arbernautarbernaut Posts: 182member
    I just bought TechTool instead as the guy in the shop said that he'd lots of returns of DiskWarrior... good investment, too?
  • Reply 5 of 6
    jwri004jwri004 Posts: 626member
    Do a google search on Norton and repairs.



    The solutions proposed every time are DW and TechTool. These two apps seem to be the peoples choice for fixing drives.



    Norton is the work of the devil.
  • Reply 6 of 6
    A comparison of Hard Drive Utilities



    http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07451

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    Published this week in TidBITS#707/24-Nov-03

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    Shootout at the Disk Repair Corral



    A Report on Firewire Problems

    http://www.macintouch.com/firewirereader.html
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