Help my HD died

andre tchmil · 20th July 2005

Having trouble with one of my harddisks (maxtor for backup only)
Drive would not mount.
I'm on a mac G4 OSX , so I tried Diskwarrior, diskutility, Drive10
none of them could solve the problem.
the red activity light keeps glowing steady.
When I run Drive10, the red light starts flickering (good sign ?? )
Disks passed all tests in drive 10, but no mount

jdunn · 21st July 2005

If Drive 10 won't mount it and it's a Maxtor, it's probably got a corrupted directory. Are you running Drive 10 from the CD or from another computer?

junior · 21st July 2005

hmmm, i'm sensing a pattern here... my 200gb maxtor drive just died too

andre tchmil · 21st July 2005

Jdunn.
I'm running Drive 10 from my main OS disk.
maxtor is mounted in an external enclosure and conncted via firewire to te same computer.

What do you suggest ?

Can I try to pull out the disk out of th firewire box and connect it internal to the ATA bus ?

jdunn · 21st July 2005

I don't think that will help either. I had a Maxtor firewire drive go bad once. It was my fault. I corrupted the directory by doing something stupid when formatting it.

Anyway, I'd call Maxtor and see about a replacement drive. If Drive 10 won't mount it, nothing probably will.

andre tchmil · 21st July 2005

Damn

20th July 2005	#1
andre tchmil Lives for gear Joined: Sep 2002 Location: always on the move Posts: 750 Thread Starter	Help my HD died Having trouble with one of my harddisks (maxtor for backup only) Drive would not mount. I'm on a mac G4 OSX , so I tried Diskwarrior, diskutility, Drive10 none of them could solve the problem. the red activity light keeps glowing steady. When I run Drive10, the red light starts flickering (good sign ?? ) Disks passed all tests in drive 10, but no mount

21st July 2005	#3
junior Lives for gear Joined: Jan 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 2,078	hmmm, i'm sensing a pattern here... my 200gb maxtor drive just died too __________________ "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep"... --Scott Adams

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21st July 2005	#2
jdunn Head of Bumping Security (B.S) Joined: Feb 2004 Location: in the hills of Southern California Posts: 2,944	If Drive 10 won't mount it and it's a Maxtor, it's probably got a corrupted directory. Are you running Drive 10 from the CD or from another computer?