Disk Utility stopped repairing "disk1s2"-a partition from an external hard disk
I bought a new Seagate Go Flex Desk 2TB exernal HD.Three days ago one of the three partitions(1.7TB) on this HD stopped working,when i tried to repair the volume in Disk Utility it stoped repairing, showing the following message-
Verify and Repair volume “disk1s2”
Checking file systemChecking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Invalid sibling link
Rebuilding catalog B-tree.
The volume could not be repaired.
Volume repair complete.Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
Now the problem is after starting it only shows the other two partitions,in Disk Utility the problematic volume no longer bears the name given by me and shows 'disk1s2' in dimmed letters. I had some nessesary piece of data in that volume.My question is-
1.Is there any oter software that i can try to fix with?
2.If i reformat the disk and ceate the partition again would it work smoothly?
3.there were power cut off 7-8 times when using the HD,if it's the reason ten why the other two partitions are working properly?One of these volumes used to contain Time Machine Back-up.
Thank you in advance for your suggestions.
I have (kind of) a simmilar problem with yours, does DiskWarrior really helped?? Since it's not free, is there any other program that might helped ???
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