External HD crash (i think)

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

all the sudden Time Machine and Finder dont want 2 find my 320 GB external HD, but i see it in disc utility and sumhow it's now 2TB, any1 got any ideas on how 2 fix it b/c disk utility keeps saying error

Subject: Re: External HD crash (i think) February 29th 2008, 9:19 pm

well, at least now u have two terabytes of memory :biggrin: hmmm try restoring a bit back... go into recovery mode and see if it is like that there...

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

i cant access it at all

Subject: Re: External HD crash (i think) March 1st 2008, 1:06 am

doesnt turn on? did u try the recovery mode?

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

well it turns on if disk utility recognizes it, but thats it...im not allowed 2 read/write on it, reformat, partition...nothing. says its unreadable and needs 2 b initialized, which it wont let me

Subject: Re: External HD crash (i think) March 1st 2008, 1:21 am

broskee wrote:: well it turns on if disk utility recognizes it, but thats it...im not allowed 2 read/write on it, reformat, partition...nothing. says its unreadable and needs 2 b initialized, which it wont let me

USB plugin right?
Can't you try sometin like plugging it into a different port?

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

ya usb, and ive tried both, would i just b better goin bak 2 cirvuit city even tho the 30 days jus passed a week ago?

Subject: Re: External HD crash (i think) March 1st 2008, 1:37 am

broskee wrote:: ya usb, and ive tried both, would i just b better goin bak 2 cirvuit city even tho the 30 days jus passed a week ago?

can you connect the drive to another computer and try like formatting it? windows comp maybe?

Subject: Re: External HD crash (i think) March 1st 2008, 1:46 am

i think data cable, like alex said, is best bet atm then take it to the store

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

ya its the same USB that a RAZR or PSP uses. also since im no that good w/ Windows XP...what program would i use 2 reformat?

Subject: Re: External HD crash (i think) March 1st 2008, 12:14 pm

download G-Parted
burn that to a CD then boot onto that and use that to reformat

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

problem is, its my moms computer so she doesnt let me D/l things 2 it since i gave it a virus once

Subject: Re: External HD crash (i think) March 1st 2008, 12:35 pm

ahhhhhh... i see... ouch... ok.. do this, get g-parted and do it quick, its small then boot into it from ur laptop.

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

i can do it on mac?

Subject: Re: External HD crash (i think) March 1st 2008, 12:52 pm

yeah, its a linux distro with only the Gnome Partition Manager on it so boot into that, i think u keep hitting f8 while the laptop is booting to boot from CD. Then go in grab what u need if u can. right click and hit file browser to browse files. the reformat. u have to unmount the drive first though so right click it and hit unmount and then go and reformat it

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

umount external not the internal rt?

Subject: Re: External HD crash (i think) March 1st 2008, 1:30 pm

both if u want to reformat them

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

close topic, i went and exchanged it

Subject: Re: External HD crash (i think) March 2nd 2008, 4:53 pm

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