Power Outage During Time Machine Backup...

Hey everyone,
I have a 1TB LaCie Big Disk+ and my someone threw the switch on the socket breaker for my room while time machine was backing up. The computer no longer can recognize the hard drive. It was partitioned and I can read it when I go to windows... but not in Mac. Is there any hope? I am a photographer and basically all of my photos are in that hard drive...
Also, the hard drive light turns on and I can still run other external hard drives through it via fire wire... it is making some noises as well... like reading or writing... not sure...
Message was edited by: Bchubak

Bchubak wrote:
Oh, yeah I wasnt using the external just as a hd for TM. I had other stuff that wasnt backed up.
That's not a good idea, as you now see. First, TM works best with it's own, exclusive partition, as explained in item #3 of the Frequently Asked Questions post at the top of this forum.
Second, a good backup strategy makes sure there are (at least) two copies of everything in two separate places. While TM will back up another partition on the same drive as your backups, it really isn't good to trust both your originals and backups to the same piece of hardware. All drives fail, sooner or later.
But I was able to retrieve all of my stuff except for the TM backups which could not be copied via mac drive, but that is fine... the only problem now is that I am unable to format the drive.
That's going to be difficult. As posted earlier, I'm not a Windoze user, but you have to be very careful using the same drive with a PC and a Mac, especially for TM backups.
The simplest solution is to use one drive for the Mac only. It can have multiple partitions, one for TM and one or more others for other things (preferably things that don't need backups, or are backed-up elsewhere).
It's my understanding that you might be able to reformat the TM partition using the PC to MS-DOS or FAT32, then re-format that partition with Disk Utility to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). You will, of course, lose the backups when you do that, but since they seem un-usable anyway, it's no great loss.

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    +Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)+
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    0xffffff807f51b750 : 0xffffff8000316dbc
    0xffffff807f51b7a0 : 0xffffff8000311a48
    0xffffff807f51b7e0 : 0xffffff800032d911
    0xffffff807f51b880 : 0xffffff800032f219
    0xffffff807f51ba00 : 0xffffff8000500297
    0xffffff807f51ba30 : 0xffffff80004e7cb8
    0xffffff807f51bab0 : 0xffffff8000318d04
    0xffffff807f51bb40 : 0xffffff80002e7f63
    0xffffff807f51bc30 : 0xffffff80003170ce
    0xffffff807f51bc60 : 0xffffff80002e6cad
    0xffffff807f51bc90 : 0xffffff80002e6eba
    0xffffff807f51bcb0 : 0xffffff80004fc585
    0xffffff807f51bd00 : 0xffffff8000316bd0
    0xffffff807f51bd30 : 0xffffff8000306211
    0xffffff807f51bf50 : 0xffffff80005caa7b
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    Darwin Kernel Version 11.3.0: Thu Jan 12 18:47:41 PST 2012; root:xnu-1699.24.23~1/RELEASE_X86_64
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    0xffffff807f51b880 : 0xffffff800032f219
    0xffffff807f51ba00 : 0xffffff8000500297
    0xffffff807f51ba30 : 0xffffff80004e7cb8
    0xffffff807f51bab0 : 0xffffff8000318d04
    0xffffff807f51bb40 : 0xffffff80002e7f63
    0xffffff807f51bc30 : 0xffffff80003170ce
    0xffffff807f51bc60 : 0xffffff80002e6cad
    0xffffff807f51bc90 : 0xffffff80002e6eba
    0xffffff807f51bcb0 : 0xffffff80004fc585
    0xffffff807f51bd00 : 0xffffff8000316bd0
    0xffffff807f51bd30 : 0xffffff8000306211
    0xffffff807f51bf50 : 0xffffff80005caa7b
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    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyEventDriver          225.2
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