Panic! LaCie External Hard disk... whhirrrr_click won't mount!
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From: Ric on 14 Apr 2010 08:12 On 14 Apr, 10:39, pe...(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: > deano <d.heighing...(a)btinternet.com> wrote: > > It fell on it's side yesterday and now just goes > > whhhirrrrrr_click_whhhirrrrrr_click_whhhirrrrrr_click_whhhirrrrrr_click_etc > > > and won't mount up and appear on the desktop. > > Worse still... my home folder is located on this disk and I get the > > message > > "disk cannot be used now" > > > I'm in Abu Dhabi at the moment, not back at home in the UK and have > > downloaded all my photos to this disk... eeek! > > > Before I do anything drastic... can anyone tell me if this is likely > > to be fatal for the disk? > > Sadly, your description- of what happened to it, and what it now does- > sounds like a dead disk. > > It doesn't mean that the data can't be recovered, but it might be a > specialised job. > > But first; try to see it in Disk Utility. And also with Disk Warrior. > Miracles do happen, and I've seen disks repaired although they wouldn't > mount. But don't hold your breath too long. > -- > Peter Bear in mind that if you're eventually planning on calling in a pro recovery firm if you don't succeed, you may damage it beyond all salvage by using diskwarrior or other tools. If it's *vital* get a pro in. If it's just *quite important* then have a go yourself....retrodata.co.uk are a nice firm to work with if you need a pro service.
From: deano on 14 Apr 2010 08:47 I use this disk as an external firewire drive for my G4 laptop and it houses 3 of my 4 user account home folders. The user account I was logged into when I knocked it over (I caught the bloody firewire lead with my foot) continued to operate as normal, after the incident while I was still finishing off some tasks. It was only when I returned later that day (yesterday) that I heard the disk making the start-stop noise, and couldn't boot up the disk! Could this mean I might have a chance of it working again? It seems odd that it continued to work right after the shock... also, it was on the floor in the first place... it didn't fall off a table or anything, just tipped over, but on a tiled floor I suppose! I have to catch a flight home tonight so won't be able to have a proper look at this until I get home... just what I need!! I did try Disk Utility but couldn't see the disk in the left pane at all. I have not been making backups for ages... more fool me, I know, but hey... worse things happen at sea!! Thanks for the feedback. d:(
From: Ian McCall on 14 Apr 2010 14:06 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > .., preferably somewhere cool (but not a > fridge!). Why not a fridge? I did that, wrapped in a plastic bag, when I suffered a spate of drive dailures a while ago, suffered no I'll effects and resurrected the disk for a short while. Don't think would help on this case, but my failure wasn't due to impact like this one. Cheers, Ian
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 14 Apr 2010 14:57 On 14 Apr 2010 18:06:06 GMT, Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote: >Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: >> .., preferably somewhere cool (but not a >> fridge!). > >Why not a fridge? Condensation is bad. >I did that, wrapped in a plastic bag, Right. I didn't want to go into details and encourage possible disasters until Dean had time to un-panic and try a few less dodgy solutions. >Don't think would help on this case, but my failure wasn't due to impact >like this one. Right - cooling tends to help with stuck disks or ones that aren't quite spinning up. Not sure why in the latter case, you'd think it'd make the bearings stiffer, but it works. Cheers - Jaimie -- WWRD? RWRTFM.
From: Richard Tobin on 14 Apr 2010 15:12
In article <pt3cs55oj8ijace90s3us5v719ciejlj69(a)4ax.com>, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: >>Why not a fridge? >Condensation is bad. >>I did that, wrapped in a plastic bag, Bear in mind that the condensation is likely to occur when you remove the cold disk from the fridge. -- Richard |