DJPoLo Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 All my computers are running OS X.4.9: I have a 150 GB external FireWire drive from LaCie. I use it to store my music and photo files. The music is replaceable. The photos are not. Recently it stopped mounting with the error: How can I go about getting it to mount and backing up the data? Apple's Disk Utility just wants to Erase it. DiskWarrior 3.0.3 doesn't even see it. It seems like back in the OS9 days I could use Norton to load a driver and I might be good to go. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -Chet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Heiter Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 How desperate are you? http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/f...cover-data.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nik Habicht Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 Chet, not much help for unrecoverable stuff, but for the future possibly: Check out Photoshelter! If you decide to stay with hard drives --- based on my experience in PC Land, external hard drives are more finicky than internal ones. External ones may behave better/last longer if they're also plugged into an uninterruptible power supply --- they don't seem to deal well with variations in electrical power. Last but not least ---- make a second backup to recordable media.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CenTX Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 I presume you have already powered down and restared both the computer and the external drive. This is just grasping at straws, but you might get lucky. Use a different firewire cable and plug it into different ports. The mac and external drive should have at least two firewire ports. Obviously remove the old firewire cable first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XRe Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 You always have the option of using a data recovery service, too.... though that might be pricey... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin J Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 Do you know what file system the Lacie drive was using? If it's something common you might be able to use some open source forensic tools to copy the data off. Is your mac one of the news ones with an intel proc? If so, download and burn Backtrack2, boot your machine to it. After booting to the live disk, the very first thing I would do is create a backup image of that Lacie drive using DD or DCFLDD just as a precaution. Once you've got your backup, try mounting the drive. If it fails, check the error message in dmesg and search around for any solutions. You can also drop me a message here. --Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJPoLo Posted August 4, 2007 Author Share Posted August 4, 2007 The quote was $1250 to recover the data. <phew!> All of the photos were backed up on another drive. Now, how important are the music files... <note the "DJ" in my handle...> -Chet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EZ Bagger Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 This is why all of my work computers are RAID 1 in addition to external data backups. At $1250 I'd shop around. That can't be anything other that a grab at the cojones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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