Mac os x journaled partition problems

I have a buffallo 500GB external drive that I have formated as mac os x journaled extended, which I am using to hold all my iTunes data, films, music, etc.
However, the drive works ok for a couple of days and then stops working the drive indicator light goes out, as if its is standby and when I look in the finder I cant see the drive anymore.
When I start the disk utility I can see the drive in the left hand column but the volume is greyed out. I have tried to repairit but this has no effec. I am unable to mount the drive. Fortunately I have a backup so I reformat and partion the drive, restore the data and then wait to go through the same process over again.
Has anyone eperienced this issue on another external drive or know if this is a known problem.
Many Thanks

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I have a friend with a MacBook 5,1 and I'm trying to help her to install a new hard drive. I followed the instructions here using Apple Disk Utility to clone the hard drive. For cloning, I had the original drive in the laptop and the clone was attached via an external SATA to USB adapter. The specs on the drive are here:
WD Scorpio Black 500 GB SATA Hard Drives ( WD5000BPKT)
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2012-03-13 16:26:33 -0700:           Partition Scheme: Master Boot Record
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2012-03-13 16:26:33 -0700:                     Name                    : “FreeAgent G”
2012-03-13 16:26:33 -0700:                     Size                    : 500.11 GB
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2012-03-13 16:27:16 -0700:
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2012-03-16 15:44:45 -0700:
2012-03-16 15:44:45 -0700:           Partition 1
2012-03-16 15:44:45 -0700:                     Name                    : “Macintosh HD”
2012-03-16 15:44:45 -0700:                     Size                    : 500.11 GB
2012-03-16 15:44:45 -0700:                     Filesystem          : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
2012-03-16 15:44:45 -0700:
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2012-03-16 15:44:45 -0700: Waiting for disks to reappear
2012-03-16 15:44:46 -0700: Formatting disk1s2 as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with name Macintosh HD
2012-03-16 15:44:58 -0700: Partition complete.
2012-03-16 15:44:58 -0700:
2012-03-16 15:46:24 -0700: Restore Disk
2012-03-16 15:46:24 -0700:           Source: “Macintosh HD”
2012-03-16 15:46:24 -0700:           Destination: “Macintosh HD”
2012-03-16 15:46:24 -0700:           Erase Destination: Yes
2012-03-16 15:46:24 -0700:           Erase “Macintosh HD” and replace its contents with the contents of “Macintosh HD.”
2012-03-16 15:46:24 -0700:
2012-03-16 15:46:24 -0700: Starting Restore…
2012-03-16 15:46:25 -0700: Validating target...
2012-03-16 15:46:25 -0700: done
2012-03-16 15:46:25 -0700: Validating source...
2012-03-16 15:46:25 -0700: done
2012-03-16 15:46:25 -0700: Erasing target device /dev/disk1s2...
2012-03-16 15:46:38 -0700: done
2012-03-16 15:46:39 -0700: Validating sizes...
2012-03-16 15:46:39 -0700: done
2012-03-16 15:46:39 -0700: Copying
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2012-03-16 18:47:57 -0700: Restore took 3 hours, 1 minute
2012-03-16 18:47:57 -0700: Complete.
2012-03-16 18:47:58 -0700:
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2012-03-16 22:28:56 -0700: Disk Utility started.
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2012-03-16 22:54:41 -0700: Starting repair tool:
2012-03-16 22:54:42 -0700: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2012-03-16 22:54:42 -0700: Checking extents overflow file.
2012-03-16 22:54:43 -0700: Checking catalog file.
2012-03-16 22:55:01 -0700: Checking multi-linked files.
2012-03-16 22:55:02 -0700: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2012-03-16 22:55:33 -0700: Checking extended attributes file.
2012-03-16 22:55:42 -0700: Checking volume bitmap.
2012-03-16 22:55:42 -0700: Checking volume information.
2012-03-16 22:55:42 -0700: The volume Macintosh HD appears to be OK.
2012-03-16 22:55:43 -0700: Volume repair complete.2012-03-16 22:55:43 -0700: Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.2012-03-16 22:55:43 -0700: Repair tool completed:
2012-03-16 22:55:43 -0700:
2012-03-16 22:55:43 -0700:
2012-03-16 23:08:19 -0700: Disk Utility started.
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I just ran disk utility as promted and checked, the main disk is already formatted to a single Mac OS extended (journaled).
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Siat Mauk wrote:
I just ran disk utility as promted and checked, the main disk is already formatted to a single Mac OS extended (journaled).
It previously had parallels partitioning, it is still installed and I can't uninstall it, could this be the problem?
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