Underbelly
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Hi,
I've got a 120gig Maxtor External Hard Drive. Lot's of important non-backuped information on it. I was copying a 15 gig file to it with only about 17-20 gigs left on it (not sure but it was almost full) An error message saying something was wrong and my file could not be copied.
The sick little pinwheel thing kept spinning after that forcing me to reboot my Mac. (old B&W G3) Upon reboot, I get a message that says my Harddrive is not formated for my machine with 3 choices. initalize, Ignore, or eject.
Of course, the first one will erase everything, the other 2 are pointless.
I ran Techtools. The on,y function on it was checking section and it took about 22 hours to check 30% of it but I had to cancel at that piont but it seems to be checking ok. By that I mean the drive was running (It has always been a slow USB, but that's my old Mac's fault)
Right now I'm running DiskWarrior with it's rebuilding function and that has been running for 24 hours (120 gig to rebuild)
If anyone has any suggestions, PLEASE HELP ME!
Thanks
Jeff
I've got a 120gig Maxtor External Hard Drive. Lot's of important non-backuped information on it. I was copying a 15 gig file to it with only about 17-20 gigs left on it (not sure but it was almost full) An error message saying something was wrong and my file could not be copied.
The sick little pinwheel thing kept spinning after that forcing me to reboot my Mac. (old B&W G3) Upon reboot, I get a message that says my Harddrive is not formated for my machine with 3 choices. initalize, Ignore, or eject.
Of course, the first one will erase everything, the other 2 are pointless.
I ran Techtools. The on,y function on it was checking section and it took about 22 hours to check 30% of it but I had to cancel at that piont but it seems to be checking ok. By that I mean the drive was running (It has always been a slow USB, but that's my old Mac's fault)
Right now I'm running DiskWarrior with it's rebuilding function and that has been running for 24 hours (120 gig to rebuild)
If anyone has any suggestions, PLEASE HELP ME!
Thanks
Jeff