External HD asking to Initialize

I have a WD 1TB HD hooked up using firewire i loaded a bunch of files on my external HD and ejected it. THe next day i pluged it back in popups up with a message that the computer can read the volume and i need to re initialize eject of ignore. I would like to keep my files so i used data rescue II and the computer finds most of my file but there all renamed to a default and not in the same folders is there a way to keep this or a better program?

juscycleballa wrote:
it was FAT 32
Have you tried connecting it to your Mac via USB?
Also, FAT 32 isn't the most reliable file system, don't trust backing up important files to it. And it has a file size limitation of 4GB, plus it doesn't work with Time Machine.
EDIT: It sounds like the file system is hosed but here's a piece of firewire voodoo with long odds against it working. However, since it can't hurt it's worth a try
Shut down your Mac and disconnected your firewire cable from both ends and let it sit about ten minutes then reconnect and try. Also, it is important to disconnect the AC power to your Mac, this helps to reset the FireWire port(s).
-mj
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In fact I can select a specific partition, but by closing and reopenning Startup Disk CP I realize that the selection has been attributed to the physical drive (all partitions highlighted).
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I have externals in Form1.h which can then simply call the primary C++ interface:
extern std::string str;
extern std::string strPage;
extern std::string strDate;
extern
void Initialize();
extern
int RebuildPage(int);
Initialize() is called right after Initialize Component() to load all the data into memory and build the first HTML page.
if (RebuildPage(7))
RefreshThePage();
Exists for most of the button clicks and dropdown selections.
The number tells the C++ code what form control was clicked and a nonzero return tells the form to refresh the page.
Refresh the page is a simple Form1.h method that does just that, changes the labels on the form header and refreshes the HTML string to the new HTML data created by the C++ logic.
void RefreshThePage(void)
this->webBrowser1->DocumentText =
gcnew String( str.c_str() );
this->ViewLabel->Text =
gcnew String( strPage.c_str() );
this->DateLabel->Text =
gcnew String( strDate.c_str() );
This allowed me to perform all of the complex operation in the existing code with minimal changes, like changing the fprintf’s that created the original HTML files into str.append logic to pass the pages directly to the form.
It’s true that all of my other code was batch style console applications, but the form front end was not totally difficult to learn and the simple fixes like David Lowndes just suggested makes the coding even easier.
Thanks again Dave.
I created a very complex program to make visualizing mutual fund trends very simple.
The problem with the batch console application was that if I wanted to stop highlighting symbol ABC and wanted to start highlighting XYZ, I had to modify a data file by hand and then rerun the batch process to recreate the entire website on my local
drive so I could not instantly see the change. Using a form front end and building and displaying the pages interactively make that process instant.

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