Mini Won't mount

When I boot under OS 9.1, my iPod won't mount, why? What extension do I need to install?

"When I boot under OS 9.1, my iPod won't mount, why?"
Because the system requirements for the iPod mini are 10.2.8 or later.

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G drive mini won't mount via firewire 800. usb ok

It hasnt been too long i bought myself a gdrive mini to benefit from the firewire 800 port. It seems that once my macbook gets warm the drive won't mount. It mounts just fine via usb. I've been to the genius bar twice and it worked both times, thats when i noticed it only happens when its warm. I was convinced its a software issue, but i dont know what to think anymore.
Has anyone encounter this issue? Any ideas of whats causing this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated

WAIT WAIT EVERYONE....READ THIS....VERY SIMPLE FIX!
My G mini 750GB drive stopped mounting.....I tried a million methods to get the G mini drive to mount and searched a ton of forums but never found this VERY EASY FIX. Try powering down your computer (imac in my case), then UNPLUG the power supply from the back of the computer....VERY IMPORTANT TO UNPLUG COMPUTER FROM ELECTRIC SOURCE. Nothing else worked for me.
Wait a minute, then plug back in and re-boot....MAGIC - freakin G mini showed up on desk top!
Good Lord why is this simple fix not all over the G mini site?????? It ought to be on the front of the box when you buy this thing! Seems no one at G mini sites talk about this and people are sending drives all over for repair!
Hope this helps!

Mac mini won't mount in Firewire target mode

I connect one non-booting Mac mini to one working Mac mini and tried to get the data off the non-booting one, but it won't mount.
When I try to repair the disk using the Disk Utility from the working mini, it says:
Verify and Repair disk “disk1s3”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Invalid node structure
Invalid node structure
Catalog file entry not found for extent
Volume check failed.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because
of an error
How can I get my data off the computer. I can reinstall the OS, but I have data in Application Data folder that I want to save too. Also, does Archive install save the whole user directory including Application Data?
I also have some files made in GarageBand saved in the Music folder.
I hope that someone can help me!

If Disk Utility cannot repair the drive then you may want to consider investing in a product like Alsoft's DiskWarrior…
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/
Given your symptoms I doubt you'll be able to do anything at all, barring an erase and install, in the drive until you get the disk repaired.

Mac mini won't mount hard drive on start up

My mac mini was shut dow for a week while on vacation. Upon return I tried to start up and hard drive won't mount. I can hear it make repeated attempts but it won't engage.

Actually I think there may have been a power outage while I was gone, but the computer was shut down. Could this be a factor?
I do not get any boot choices it just keeps cycling the initial disk start-up prior to the chime. I'll try starting with the Option or alt key down.

IPod Mini won't mount onto my desktop and so I can't update anything

I've tried a few of the 5 "R"s. Restarting my computer. Trying another USB port. Redownloading the latest iPod/iTunes software. I'm hesistant to do the total restore as that's going to erase everything on my beautiful Mini. It'll be a last resort. (Note: I'm not sure "restore" is the correct term although I'm sure it was the last thing Apple suggests. It basically resets your iPod to its original factory settings.) I've got another week or two of audiobooks to listen to before the situation is that desparate.
Anyway, it still charges when it's plugged in. Any ideas on what I should do next? This thing happened a few times temporarily in the past. I just restarted the computer and it worked fine. No such luck this time.
Thanks for any and all words of advice.
Brian
800Mhz eMac. Superdrive. 60Gig HD Mac OS X (10.4.5) iTunes 6.0.3 Mini purchased last spring-not sure what generation that makes it.

Did you check the iPod Support support… As a Mac
Users there are several topics about your problem…
How did you get your problem ? is it after updating
your iTunes software ? does you iPod work anyway ?
I hope you will be able to open this link :
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93718-e
iPod Support-yes. There were a few posts similar to mine but nobody seems to have gotten a satifactory answer.
It just wouldn't mount on my desktop one day.
That I don't know. This could be the case. I don't really remember which updates I've done in the past month (besides the iTune/iPod update I recently did manually.)
The Mini works fine except for the not updating thing.
I had seen that article before but thank you anyway.
It's a mystery.....

G-Drive Mini won't mount

Hello all,
A little back story:
I used a 160gb G-Drive Mini with my 15 Al Powerbook G4 (w/OSX 10.4.11) extensively for a couple years with a firewire 400 cable. One day the drive's firewire port crapped out, and since the machine doesnt have the power to run the drive on USB, I figured out that hooking up both USB and firewire cables worked for mounting the drive. (I assume the firewire port was powering the drive and USB was working for data transfer) Time went on, got used to using the drive like this, got fed up, one day decided to send it in for repair, got my drive back and it still wouldnt mount when using just a firewire cable, sent the drive back again and they sent me a brand new one which i just got today.
Drive still wont mount with just the firewire 400. The drive powers up just fine. I can hear it spin when plugged in, but never mounts. It's also not present in disk utility or system profiler. Tried different cables.
Is there anything I can do?
Thanks.

Hi, roland, and welcome to AppleDiscussions. Sounds to me like insufficient power from the FireWire port alone. That's a rare problem with FireWire drives and Powerbooks, though it's much more the rule than the exception with USB drives and Powerbooks. If you choose to keep using this particular brand and model of drive, you'll probably have to use both the USB and FireWire ports to get enough power to it. It apparently requires considerably more power than most bus-powered FireWire drives do, and/or your Powerbook is putting out considerably less than most other Powerbooks.

G-Drive Mini won't mount - can't see it in Disk Utility

Last night my g-drive mini was unplugged from the firewire port, didn't get ejected before unplugging. When I went to put it back in, the power light comes on, but I don't hear the HD spin, and it doesn't mount.
When I open disk utility, I still don't see the drive.... oh for the love of god please help... pretty much lifes work/backup on there.
Noah

When i do, its only showing my big gdrive, a connected server, and my hd. But not the mini.
One other detail i should add, if it changes anything, is last night i tried hooking up the g-drive mini to my airport express just to see if it would work wirelessly (after soon finding out express doesnt support that). Having to use a USB cord, I needed to plug it into the wall with the ac-adapter.
Thats when I went to plug it back into my laptop and wouldn't mount from that moment forward.

Lacie disk mini won't mount

I just bought a intel core duo iMac and hooked up my lacie disk mini via USB to access my itunes library and other files only to get a message saying that no disk mini was found. Both Disk Utility and Norton see the external hard drive and scan it with positive results. I even connected the disk mini to my freinds PC and I could access the files just fine. Any ideas anybody?

Welcome to the discussions, Tommy!
According to LaCie's FAQs on this subject, they ask users to try -
- A different cable
- Repair permissions
- Shut down and unplug your Mac for 15 minutes to reset the FW/USB bus
I am not sure if this is an issue related to your iMac being a Core Duo model, but this is the forum for the G5 iMacs. You might want to post this question in the iMac (Early 2006) forums for your model. If it is specific to the Core Duos, the users there might have experienced the same problem and have a solution.

Mini won't mount disk on the desktop

I have two disks, a cd-r and a dvd-r. Both were burned
on a windows pc, but contain files that are in formats that I
can use on my Mac.
The problem is, neither one of the disks will show up on the desktop.
It makes all sorts of noise, reading the disk when I insert it, but then just gets quiet, and no image on the desktop.
If I go to disk utility, the disk is there, but I know of no way to open it from disk utility. Is there a way to do this?
I have also heard of utilities you can download that supposedly will mount the disk on the desktop. Can someone please help?
Thanks!

Hi! Thanks so much for trying to help. ^_^
Yes, I have cd's, dvd's and ipods checked.
I haven't had this happen with any other disks that I own.
I hadn't tried 'mount' from disk utility, but gave it a try.
When I went to Disk Utility, I could highlight the disk, but I can't click on
mount, as it is not highlighted, even after I click on the disk.
These files should be playable, I just can't make the disk show up.
Would there be any other way to get these disks to show up?

CD won't mount

Gang -
My son's Mac mini won't mount this one install disk for a typing program. I've checked the disk and it will mount in my G5 as well as even on a PC. (!?) But, when I put it in this machine, the drive starts to wind up like it's about to read and display the splash screen, then it just slows down and eventually does some clicking on & off, probably the drive attempting to read and eventually it stops completely, the drive never available. It's a pretty new machine and it has no problem reading other disks at all.
The machine generally runs fine, a little on the slow side, but nothing unusual. It was never known for speed.
BTW, this MacMini is a 1.25 Ghz, G4 w/256 M RAM, running 10.4.3
Thanks!
B&W G3, 2Ghz G5, lots of other stuff.... Mac OS X (10.3.6) this MacMini is a 1.25 Ghz, G4 w/256 M RAM

That could be a sign that the optical drive is dying. Have you tried any other CDs or DVDs to see if they work in the Mac mini? If they don't, or more don't than do, I suggest taking the Mac mini to a near-by Apple Store or other Apple service center.
Peggy

USB stick won't mount on mac mini, it works perfectly on my macbook

Both of them are osx lion.
On the mini the led of the 256Mb USB stick (and still plenty of space!) gives short flashes every second, and won't mount on my desktop, in finder. It doesn't show up in disk utility.
The mac mini is the most recent server model. I tried USB ports on the back of the mac mini, and also on the connected thunderbolt display. Other memorysticks work well. Only this particular one doesn't work on the mini.
The memorystick works perfectly in my 2008 macbook pro. Plug it in, it mounts as it should do.
What can i do?

In Disk Utility, once you highlight a Drive or Partition, you'll see Verify Disk, (blue arrow), & if a drive you're not booted from then Repair Drive, (red arrow), will be an option also...
I'm thinking you may have to copy everything off it & see if you can Format it FAT32.

Western Digital My Passport For Mac Won't Mount

Hello everyone,
I always try to find related articles prior to posting, but I haven't found anything quite like my situation listed. I have a "My Passport For Mac" that I recently reformatted on my Mac to use as a time machine (using 10.10.2). Prior to reformatting, it worked fine. I have it encrypted so any time I'd plug it in & it would request my password. All was great. I reformatted it & then used it to back up my Mac. However, days later, when I go to plug it in, the hard drive won't mount. A lot of folks with a similar situation are at least reporting that it's showing up in Disk Utility. However, mine is completely absent. I've tried it on multiple computers (including a PC). It's not showing up anywhere. But the disk is on & spinning. Does anyone have any idea what's going on? I'm stumped on this one. I'm not worried about recovering any data from this as it's just a Time Machine backup. I'd just like to get it to mount to my Mac again!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

Historically, the problem has been that many USB-powered drives can't get enough power from a USB port after they begin to age. The Passport is bus-powered, getting all its power from a USB port. Not the best solution for a desktop computer.
To get such a drive going again, you need one of two workabouts:
1) a powered USB hub (has its own power supply to make up the shortfall) that goes between the external drive and the computer.
2) use a "Y" USB cable to get power from two USB ports simultaneously (such as http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/USB2AYMBPB/)
Also, WD uses an odd proprietary formatting scheme that is of itself a problem area. WD makes very good bare drives but the enclosures into which they put them to make an external drive are not very good and not particually Mac-Friendly. The formatting makes them harder to use.
Once you get the files you need off the external, consider erasing and reformating it to Mac Extended Journaled using Disk Utility. That often makes the drive more reliable without having to revert to USB hubs or special cables. It gets rid of the proprietary formatting that seem to contribute to the problems.
I have three external drives. All have WD bare drives inside but none are in WD encosures. By far the best enclosures for Mac external drives are those from OWC:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB
I have two of the desktop model shown and one of its portable version for my MacBook Pro. All three have given me superb service and zero problems.

External drives won't mount after running repair permissions

None of my external drives will mount after running disk permissions. Drives work fine on my mbpro.
None of the external drives show up in disk utilities...
I've try shutting down and unplugging computer. even mini zip drives won't mount.
I'm running 10.4.11
PPC G5 2.3Ghz
Thanks for any help..

Repairing Permission only deals with installer receipts and system components. Not with mounting or accessing hard drives.
Have your run Apple DU First Aid? Disk Warrior? Only use latest version for your OS.
Are you trying to clone your system to external and then repairing permissions? trying to boot from them?
If cloning, make sure the "Ignore Ownership" flag is unchecked before cloning (but do repair permissions on external drives you intend to boot from, such as a Firewire drive).
What type of cases and interface are these?

External disk won't mount after 10.5.7 upgrade

Hi,
I know there's problem with Buffalo external HD; mine is Lexcron 3.5'' external case and it won't mount neither. I tried PRAM restart, and if I go to Disk Utility and try to repair, it gives me the following message:
Verify and Repair volume “Dirty Hary”
** /usr/local/bin/ntfsfix has been disabled because of volume corruption issues.
** If you still want to try fixing your volume, use /usr/local/bin/ntfsfix from the command line...
Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.
It worked with 10.5.6 and it still works with Win XP (it's NTFS format).
Is there something that I can do?
Will this issue be solved in Snow Leopard?
Thanks in advance for any kind of constructive info (I've already read threads with Buffalo issue, but I didn't find any thread giving a solution).
Sharlo

Sharlo wrote:
Hi V.K.,
Thanks for your response, can you provide some more details?
OS X has very limited support for NTFS. you need to repair the drive from windows.
How do I do that? I mean the disk works normally in Win XP and it worked normally in the previous OS X version. Btw. I've also installed NTFS-3D which allowed to write on the disk and search from spotlight (of course when it was mounted).
run chkdsk in windows and see if it finds any errors.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265
it can also be that the problem is caused by ntfs-3g which is known to have a number of bugs. you can try uninstalling it or plugging in the drive in a mac without ntfs-3g installed.
there is no "issue" to solve.
Well if it worked in 10.5.6 and it works in Win XP and it doesn't work in 10.5.7 I am tempted to say 10.5.7 has an issue.
the fact that you have a problem with one drive on your particular system doesn't mean there is a problem with os x in general. an issue is when all or at least many people have a problem, not one.
furthermore, NTFS is a proprietary file system of Microsoft with closely guarded secrets about its inner workings which is why it has very limited support on other types of operating systems. apple is under no obligation to provide ANY support for something like that. programs like NTFS-3g are essentially unauthorized hacks.

External drive won't mount- which software is best for data recovery?

Hi,
My external OWC drive won't mount to the desktop. It is visible in Disc Utility, but can't be manually mounted from there. Verify and Repair disk functions state that the disk appears ok (log below):
Verify and Repair volume “OWC Mercury Elite AL Pro mini”
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume OWC Mercury Elite AL Pro mini appears to be OK.
Drive lights up and spins. No weird sounds, just won't mount.
Not everything on the disc was backed up before the problem occurred. It's still under warranty with OWC, but I'd like to attempt to recover the data before sending it in for repair/replacement. The OWC tech on the phone said he's never seen this specific problem with this drive.
I'm thinking Data Rescue 3 would be the best software to try, but does anyone know of any other options to try first?
Thanks!

JohnDoe2009
I concur with the previous poster that if Disk Utility found no problems running TechTool Pro, Drive Genius or Disk Warrior might get it going. If you don't have any of those you could try
• Download and install Applejack
• Restart computer holding down Command + S
• When Command line comes up type in
+applejack AUTO+
Let is run all five functions.
In terms of Data Recovery
DataRescue 3
Virtual Lab
FileSalvage
are all excellent tools, and all offer a demo version.
Dr. Smoke's FAQ Data Recovery offers excellent tips on how to do it.
Good luck.
cornelius

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