External Harddrive not working as it should..
Hi,
Could someone please help me with my problem? I would be very grateful!
I have a 2TB harddrive that I formatted to ExFat the same day I got it (about 2 years ago). It has working perfectly until now.
My My Book Essential WD 2TB Harddrive suddenly started to act weird. It worked perfectly a week ago.
So what has happened in the meanwhile:
- Yesterday I formatted another harddrive (a 500GB WD Ultra) to ExFat.
- A day or two I did an OSX update, now got 10.9.1
So today when I connected the 2TB harddrive to the MacBook Pro (13"), nothing showed in the Finder. The harddrive is making sounds as usual but the blue light in the front is flashing (like it's working).
I have been searching the web for similar problems and people have suggested click Finder > Preferences > General > Show these items on the Desktop: > Select External Disks - and I tried that but it was unsuccesful.
I also went into Disk Utility to try and see if the HD was connected to the machine at all and it was.
I went on DU -> clicked Verify --> then the message "Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk". Clicked Repair Disk, and then it stopped repairing after a while (see photo).
So I'm really stressed out now. I haven't done anything to the HD, this suddenly happened!
And I got so much important stuff on it, such as school documents, CVs, University stuff, movies, photos etc.
Anyone that has been in a similar situation and know how to fix it?,
Thank you!
Kind regards
MrNord
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