External drive suddenly no longer formatted

i've had a 150 GB internal HDD in a firewire enclosure connected to my mac pro for the better part of 2 years, it basically houses my itunes library and thats it.
it worked fine yesterday when i left work and left the computer on.
this morning, (after the computer was shut down and booted back up) i get "the disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" and it gives me the options to initialize, ignore, or eject.
looking in disk utility (both from within osx, and from running the dvd on boot, it recognizes the drive, but no volumes attached to it, so it wont let me verify/repair disk or verify/repair permissions...
under "partition map scheme" it says it is unformatted...
any suggestions?

I'd be more inclined to reset the FW bus; make sure everything is on UPS, and try Disk Warrior. However, I"ve seen threads in OS X Leopard: Using about FW drives not mounting/not ejecting safely and other problems.
... which is why always backup, and backup your backup too.
Maybe time to retire the drive or case for newer unit if its starting to have trouble and been in use over two years.

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                    Last backup: 2013-12-20 16:57:03 +0000
                    Size of backup disk: Excellent
                              Backup size 2 > (Disk size 446.33 GB X 3)
          Time Machine details may not be accurate.
          All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
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Never seen this before. Usually the external drives show an orange hard-drive icon and drive name on the desktop. I've got dozens of external drives. Always the same icon. Suddenly one of my drives, which I've been using quite frequently, and which has always had an orange icon like all the others, has come onto the desktop with an icon looking like one of those old portable zip drives.
I'm at a loss as to why. Or if it means I'm about to have something wonky happen to the drive.
Any suggestions?
Ben

Hi. You may be able to restore the icon by copying one of the others via the Get Info windows:
Open the Get Info windows for the drive with the wrong icon and a drive with the correct icon. Select the correct icon so that it is highlighted and do a Command(Apple)-C to copy it - then select/highlight the wrong icon in the Get Info window and do a Command(Apple)-V to paste.
You could check out the drive directory structure, etc. in Disk Utility > First Aid > Verify Disk - or with Disk Warrior
http://alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/index.html
If S.M.A.R.T. Status is supported on the drive, DU or DW should report the status as 'Verified' - or not: "If the S.M.A.R.T. status for a disk shows "Verified," nothing is wrong with it. If you see "About to Fail" in red letters, you should back up the disk and replace it as soon as possible." - from DU Help.
If the Finder is experiencing widespread wierdness, you may have to delete the com.apple.finder.plist file in HD/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/ and then re-select your Finder Preferences. Good Luck.

External Drive is no longer recognized by Macbook

I have this external drive....
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Passport-Essential-WDME2500TN/dp/B0012GK3M Q/ref=sr11?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1280159206&sr=1-1
It is about 60% full of music/pictures/documents that are NOT on my Macbook, therefore I use it regularly.
Every once in a while, I accidentally remove it without properly ejecting first. But I guess I did it one too many times because now the computer will not recognize it at all.
To insure that the drive wasn't corrupt, I plugged it into a PC. It worked fine. The files are all there and were completely accessible. But as soon as I plugged it back into the Mac, it won't show up.
When I try a Disk Utilities repair, I get the following message:::::
FIRST AID FAILED
Disk Utility stopped repairing “My Passport” because the following error was encountered:
The underlying task reported failure on exit
Verify and Repair disk “My Passport”
** /dev/disk1s1
** Phase 1 - Read FAT
** Phase 2 - Check Cluster Chains
** Phase 3 - Checking Directories
Unable to read directory (Input/output error)
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 non HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error
I have NO $$$, so telling me to purchase a $30-100 program will not help me AT ALL. I'm looking for solutions that will not effect my wallet, even if they take all day to complete.
What can I do????????

Ok. Just to set one part straight- I doubt the problem came from unplugging your drive without ejecting. This usually isn't a problem unless files are writing or in use when you do it, but ejecting is a safe way to avoid issues.
Try force-mounting the drive in terminal by using the following commands
*mkdir /Volumes/yourdrivename*
this command should give you the location of the drive on your computer. (It should be something like disk2 or disk1s3) Then type the location into:
*mount /dev/yourdrivelocation*
Whether or not this works, follow up this step by ejecting the drive and unplugging and plugging it back in. This worked for me when I was having this issue.
Also- are you able to backup and reformat the drive? This would be a good thing to try if other attempts have failed.

Greetings. I need to know what to do if a formerly recognized external drive is no longer recognized by my iMac.

Greetings. I could use some advice here.
I bought a WD external hard drive to back-up some files on my old iMac, but I reformatted it & set it up on my new iMac.
After I backed up the files I wanted, I hooked the external drive to the new iMac, but now the new iMac doesn't recognize that external drive.
What should I do?
I also have a flash drive that neither iMac will recognize. Similar issue or no?
Would appreciate any adice I can get on these situations.
Thanks for you time and attention.

You need to deal with your vendor or AppleCare Customer Relations. We can't tell you what to do nor what is possible.
It's unfortunate you have had these problems, but we really cannot resolve them for you. We do not represent Apple nor can we tell you what to do other than attempt to resolve the issue either with your vendor or through Customer Relations.

Convert a PC external drive to Mac Book format

I purchased an external hard drive and it needs to be reformatted for my MacBook Pro - how do I do this? I just got my MacBook and I'm converting from a PC.

Open the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder, select it in the sidebar, choose the Erase tab, and specify Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as the format.
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External drive suddenly not showing up?

Hello--
I have one of those Book Drives (500GB) that had been working fine on my iMac. On Monday night, I installed and ran Norton AntiVirus on it. Everything worked fine. Would that be causing it to suddenly not appear on my desktop when I start up? There is power to the drive, since it's lit up green...
Any ideas?
Thanks!

Disconnect it and reconnect it. If it doesn't reappear, launch disk utilities and see if it can see it. If it does, try to repair it and mount it.
Glor

Indexing A External Drive I no longer Have

i had a friends mac connected as a ext drive. she took it home. but my spotlight is still indexing the drive which of course not connected anymore. how do i stop this? is there a easy way? or do i have to go into the dreaded "terminal"
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