firelite won't mount
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- acescence0
is it recognized in disk utility?
- acescence0
disk warrior
- _salisae_0
i took it to the apple store .. plugged it into a laptop with the same cable as always and it mounted.
my suspicion is that the drive was too full so i deleted a bunch of files and now it is working at home as well. w00t!
- _salisae_0
i was left to my own devices since the apple salesman i was working with went to change into his 'ask me everything' shirt. and unfortunately, an external drive connected to a laptop doesn't look good to the other salesmen. they thought i was installing viruses or something cus they freaked.
- MrOneHundred0
Good thing you recently backed it up.
- hallelujah0
THANK GOD
- I often imagine what would happen if a fire or thief took all my backupshallelujah
- I would have to kill myselfhallelujah
- :D our holiday photos were saved_salisae_
- christ that would be devastating._salisae_
- jedipunk0
Are you on a Mac? if so make sure that your firelite is disconnected and press "command + shift + g" - enter the text "/volumes" and press enter (or click go). You should see all of the mounted volumes. If you see your firelite drive still mounted (this can happen when it is not unmounted correctly before disconnecting). Delete the alias of the firelite drive (again, make sure your firelite is not connected). Then try plugging in your firelite drive and see if that resolves the issue.
- cashface0
bang it
- _salisae_0
i tried your suggestion, jedi. thank you for that. didn't work tho .. it's not there. :((((
it seems like the cable does work since the drive whirs when i plug it in. recently i maxed it's capacity .. that was the first time i'd done that. perhaps that screwed it up.
- studderine0
daammmnn...maybe time for a new one...?
- moveinspace0
Hope you figure it out salisae. It only takes losing your hard drive one time to learn a valuable lesson. Always always always archive important things.
- thanks, moveinspace. i read someone with the same issue just kept trying and eventually it mounted. i'm not giving up that easy!_salisae_
- fingers crossed;)moveinspace
- _salisae_0
i have everything i really need .. there is a folder on the drive i titled 'everything' and i can't remember what was in it! i think it's just my stupid work from super deluxe which i'm fine to lose. but i can just imagine one day i'll find something vital is missing and at that point i'll cry.