Is the drive USB, and do you use any virtualization software? I have seen Parallels intercept the plug-in of USB peripherals and preempt OS X from seeing them at all. When Parallels is quit, suddenly OS X "discovers" the new devices.
On Feb 20, 2012, at 7:28 AM, [email protected] wrote: > (Mini running Snow Lep; Seagate 2TB external drive, formatted HTFS) > > The (1 year old) Seagate went south about 3 weeks ago, stopped mounting. > > I was able to see it temporarily (10 min) by unplugging and then replugging > it in. > > Even then, the single partition on the drive appeared to be unreadable. Disk > Utility couldn't detect anything, number of files, free space, etc. Disk > Warrior 4.3 nor Drive Genius got anywhere with it either. > > After a couple of days of trying to forget, I came back to the Mini and for > an unrelated reason had to boot into XP. > > XP sees the drive! (which, again, is formatted HTFS) > > XP is allowing me to copy the files to a new drive(which I formatted FAT). > > > Can anyone tell me why this is happening? > Or should I just keep quiet and be happy? > > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
