Hello everyone! Long time reader very seldom poster...
I have a question for the minds here:
Recently I have not been able to access a partition on a Firewire hard
drive. When I click on the icon for the partition on my desktop or in
the devices list in the sidebar of the Finder, the Finder seems to blink
and all of the icons on the desktop as well as the finder bar up top all
disappear for a second and then comeback leaving me without a way to
browse the items on that partition. The 2 other partitions of the drive
are just fine. I canot open files within a program to acces the drive
either, say open up Text Edit and click on that drive to chose a file it
simply crashes the application instantly.
I can see the drive in Disk Utility and System Profiler. Disk Utility
says it is fine when I repair it.
I've restarted, shutdown, disconnected and turned on and off the FW
drive. Started with the drive on and connected. Started up in Safe mode.
Reset PRAM. Nothing. Repaired permissions on the Mac HD, deleted
com.apple.finder.plist and still nothing.
The machine is a 2010 Intel Core 2 Duo Mac Mini running SL 10.6.8 8GB
RAM. It also afects my 17 " 1.5Ghz AL G4 Powerbook running Tiger 10.4.11
with 2 GB RAM. On that machine it actually makes the Finder Icon and
title bar blink infinitely without letting me do anything except
disconnect the drive after which all is well.
The drive is a 500GB Seagate 7200 rpm OWC Mercury On The Go 2.5" ATA in
a FW800/USB2 enclosure connected via FW800. There are 3 180GB
partitions. The drive is 2 years old. I'll be contacting OWC in the morning.
Please help shed some light on this unusual problem. I have not been
able to find anything via Googl/Apple site/etc. I'm fairly certain my
data is there and intact just not accessible. I hope I'm right or I just
lost a recording session among other important things...Thanks in advance.
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Kevin Coons
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