Hard Drive (western digital) no longer mounting..?
Hi guys.
I have yet to find any resolution to a new problem I've been having with my Western Digital Hard Drive.
I've had it for about 6 months. Has run with no problems, until recently.
I have been running it on my Macbook Pro 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 and Playstation3 since I bought it. I went to load up my Macbook one day, and it would not recognize the hard drive. I have run the Disk Utility repair/verify options on it. It shows up on the list, when I select eject, nothing really happens. It just stays on the list. When I select the particular partition (FRANK) on the hard drive, and click Mount, I get an error message stating; 'Try running first aid on the disk and then retry mounting.' Which I have done, and this is what I recieve;
Verify and Repair volume “FRANK”
Checking file system** /dev/disk1s1
** Phase 1 - Preparing FAT
** Phase 2 - Checking Directories
** Phase 3 - Checking for Orphan Clusters
28027 files, 424337248 KiB free (13260539 clusters)
Volume repair complete.Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
I have plugged the HD into an iMac in the house, and it mounts no problem and all the files are there and accessable.
When I first had this problem (2 weeks ago) I decided to back everything up on the iMac, and format the HD, just to see. And again same issue, even after formatting it, FAT 32 (MS-DOS) - For Playstation.
Any ideas on what I can do to be able to access Frank again, from the Macbook Pro?
Thanks for any help!
I had a similar issue with an Iomega hard drive after connecting it to a samsung led tv
the resolution for me was to boot into a windows partition, plug in the HDD let it do it's thing and then use the "safely disconnect device" feature in windows
afterwards it simply showed up again
the cause of this issue lies with connecting to DLNA-compliant devices (eg PS3/TV/xbox/...) and unsafely disconnecting them
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