On Jan 2, 2012, at 8:53 PM, Kevin wrote: > 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.
Then Disk Utility is lying. What does the system log say? HAve you tried Disk Warrior? This sounds like a bad directory, exactly what DW fixes... > > 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. Well, actually you've proven that it's the FW drive, not your Mac. > 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. What happens if you try to access it in Terminal: mount the drive, then go into Terminal and type: cd /Volumes Then ls You should see the three partitions as separate directories there. Try to copy a file from the bad partition to your main drive. If it fails then, you either have a failing drive or a bad partition. If Disk Warrior cannot fix it, you may be sol -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
