Any help would be appreciated.
I have an external Firewire Hard Drive that I have a bunch of audio files on.
Yesterday when I turned on the drive it would not mount on my G5. The light keeps blinking on the front of the drive. (it usually blinks, then goes solid). The drive also keeps "whinning" like it's starting up, and the computer won't see the drive.
Any ideas? I need these files.
HELP PLEASE Hard Drive Problem
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twistedtom
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Re: HELP PLEASE Hard Drive Problem
Did you go to systems profiler to see if the drive is listed? You may try using a drive utility like Tech tools. If your drive is bad you can send it out to a drive recovery co. They are not cheap although. This reminds me I have a few things I need to back up on disk. I am a firm belifer in backing up often.
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Re: HELP PLEASE Hard Drive Problem
Yes...check to see if the Firewire device shows up in System Profiler. If not, could be that your firewire housing is shot.
If you have Diskwarrior, you could see if it could rebuild the directory of the drive. A bad directory can keep a disk from mounting.
Putting it in another firewire housing is the best way to check the original housing.
Here's one for others to answer: In a G5 is there a connection for an IDE/ATA drive slaved to the DVD (like in a G4)? If you remove the drive from the housing and connect it internally (assuming your Mac can use an ATA drive) and it mounts it's most likely the firewire housing that's hosed.
Of course, you couldn't go internal at all if it's an iMac.
If you have Diskwarrior, you could see if it could rebuild the directory of the drive. A bad directory can keep a disk from mounting.
Putting it in another firewire housing is the best way to check the original housing.
Here's one for others to answer: In a G5 is there a connection for an IDE/ATA drive slaved to the DVD (like in a G4)? If you remove the drive from the housing and connect it internally (assuming your Mac can use an ATA drive) and it mounts it's most likely the firewire housing that's hosed.
Of course, you couldn't go internal at all if it's an iMac.
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Re: HELP PLEASE Hard Drive Problem
Had a similar issue last week when a friend was using my file sharing to transfer some audio to my Mac. Once file sharing was tured off (and the Mac restared) the Firewire drive appeared as usual. It was more than just a little scarey!
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Re: HELP PLEASE Hard Drive Problem
Try these two ways:
First : Shutdown the computer connect firewire start the power of disk and wait until the Hd is stable. So start the computer and wait 5 minutes. If the led blinking irregular it's all Ok (you need to wait that computer rebuild the HD tree). If this not work look for step 2.
Two: (only if the files are very important) : Open the case of External HD. Extract the disk, disconnect the 2 cables (power and data) and mount this into a internal Ide bus of an Macintosh before G5 that support IDe disk (for example G3 or G4). Start this computer and Burn some DVD to back up the data..
First : Shutdown the computer connect firewire start the power of disk and wait until the Hd is stable. So start the computer and wait 5 minutes. If the led blinking irregular it's all Ok (you need to wait that computer rebuild the HD tree). If this not work look for step 2.
Two: (only if the files are very important) : Open the case of External HD. Extract the disk, disconnect the 2 cables (power and data) and mount this into a internal Ide bus of an Macintosh before G5 that support IDe disk (for example G3 or G4). Start this computer and Burn some DVD to back up the data..