Re: Portable Hard Drive failure

2016-06-19 Thread Rod Blitvich
Thank you Ronni No luck Take care cheers Blitto Rod Blitvich - Amy & Sam’s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Good Ideas 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au > On 19 Jun 2016, at 10:20 AM, Ronni Brown wrote: > > Hi Blitto, > > Does sound like the

Re: Portable Hard Drive failure

2016-06-18 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Blitto, Does sound like the external HD has some file corruption. Have you tried repairing the external drive using Disk Utility in OS X Recovery HD partition? Restart the computer and hold the Command-R keys until you see the Apple symbol. Once in Recovery HD - OS X Utilities select Disk

Re: Portable Hard Drive failure

2016-06-18 Thread Rod Blitvich
Hi Ronni I think I might send him to a data recovery place. cheers Blitto WD My Passport 0820 2 TB Has lived in his backpack without a protective case apparently!! Storing videos and files not journalled file system - unknown Capacity - 2TB Used - 2 TB ! (although he claims it had 1.5

Re: Portable Hard Drive failure

2016-06-17 Thread Ronni Brown
> On 14 Jun 2016, at 7:41 PM, Rod Blitvich wrote: > > Hi WAMUGers > My son has a portable hard drive that is not functioning all of a sudden. > Disk First Aid reports a problem. “unable to unmount volume for repair" > Amy suggestions please? Especially recovering the data.