Hi, I have a WD 1.5Tb firewire Ext HDD which stores the family videos. Over the course of years I have had many problems with it for some reasons not turning on and on other occasions not showing up on my iMac desktop. It would work in about 5% of the attempts.
As I knew I was retiring last year and would have more time available, I put off worrying about it. Last year in the US I picked up a Voyager S3 3.5 SATA drive dock to try to bypass the problem, whether it be, the Mybook power source, the on/off Switch or the WD Case. When I loaded the Ext HDD in the dock I had the following message “The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer” And it gave me three options:- Initialize…, Ignore, or Eject. Well, the last two were not going to be very helpful and the first one Initialize filled me with dread as it was always formatted as an OS X Extended disc and I believe you can’t initialize without erasing? I have another WD 1Tb Firewire Ext HDD, which loaded into the dock without a problem, is readable and is in the same format OS X Extended as the “not readable” 1.5Tb was. I tried Disk Utility to run First Aid on the 1.5Tb and the Voyager S3 Media shows up under External, but there is no drop down arrow as there is when I use the 1.0Tb. It states 1.5TB Unitialized. Then Location - Eternal, Connection - USB, Partition Map - Not Supported, S.M.A.R.T. status - Not Supported, Capacity - 1.5 Tb, Child count -0, Type - Disk, Device -disk1. When I ran First Aid on it, I got the Message, “First Aid process is complete, click Done to continue” The arrow Show Details when activated says - Operation successful. The only other options available on Disk Utility are “Erase” which obviously I don’t want to do and “Info” which repeats much of the previous information in the last paragraph along with, Volume type - Unknown, File system - Unknown, Writable - No, Owners enabled - No, Is encrypted - no, Can be verified - no, Can be repaired - no, Bootable - no, Journaled - No. I tried DiskWarrior. A disk appeared as [Unrecognizable Format] - under Directory but the Rebuild button was greyed out Overview - Directory cannot be rebuilt, the partition map may be corrupt. -This disk is an external USB disk. -This disk is 1.50 TB in size. -This disk is not mounted. -disk1 Directory Optimisation Index - empty A Directory Optimization Index could not be calculated for this disk because of a disk malfunction. Rebuild this disk as soon as possible to recover your files. The disk did not appear under Files or Hardware. Any ideas of where do I go from here to try and recover the files? Are there any alternative strategies that I could try or I might have missed? Or should I be looking at a Data Recovery Application or a Data Recovery Store? Thanks Matt. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
