I am stupid
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- CyBrain
I didn't buy a backup drive for my music. Now the fourth external drive I've owned won't mount and makes a sickly clicking noise when I reboot it. The drive is only about a year old. Even if it's still under warranty — big deal. It was about $200.
What I'm more concerned about losing is 141 gigabytes of music, 23,691 songs from my iTunes library.
What are my chances this can be fixed?
- vaxorcist0
argh....
from an online discussion group that saved a drive for me:
Open up your Terminal app (which is in /Applications/Utilities) and let us see the results of the following commands copy/pasted into the Terminal, hitting Return after each command:
ls -al /Volumes
id
echo "done"
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Anyway, now I cannot see the icon on the desktop on either computer. It appears in Disk Utility, and when I verified the disk it says 'Volume passed verification'.
You should "Repair Disk" in Disk Utility, not just "Verify". What happens after you Repair Disk?
If Disk Utility is not able to fix the problem, then I would recommend a more heavy-duty disk repair application, DiskWarrior.
If you've given up on ever using the disk anymore and just want to retrieve whatever information off of it that you can, then I'd recommend Data Rescue II. But DiskWarrior is very powerful and would certainly be what I would use in your place.
- ukit0
Not to sound cold-hearted, but in the event that a solution can't be found, at least it's just music and not your work. Music can be easily tracked down online.
- instrmntl0
to the FMT's!
- zarkonite0
it's called the click of death... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cli…
I'm sorry to say your odds are fairly bad, this is usually caused by reading head colliding with the disk effectively scrapping the surface.
I'm not too familiar with the tools available on OSX but if you can grab one of those bootable Linux OS (IE: knoppix.net) they are usually full of tools to save data, I've had a few instances where they'll mount automatically stuff that windows wouldn't even acknowledge as plugged in.
good luck =(
- imnotadesigner0
you just scared the bejesus outta me with this post... Im starting to have the same problem with my music drive. I have to keep pressing the power button rapidly (like how you use to with nintento) in order to get it to mount. Tomorrows mission: get a new drive and back up
- bliznutty0
share or it didn't happen
- CGN0
Have you heard of RAID?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAI…
- lvl_130
been there. fuck that.
sorry for your loss. i can mail you my ipod with 80 gigs of music...but most of it sounds like bmmp tshhh bmmp tshhh bmmp tshhh bmmp tshhh bmmp tshhh bmmp tshhh bmmp tshhh bmmp tshhh
set to plus or minus 90-160bpms. interested? you would need to mail it back to me of course.
- tOki0
if you can afford it, slash out for a solid state drive - those things are tough as fuck!
Otherwise you should set up a raid on your computer with 3 or 4 drives..
- fiesta0
get yourself a good torrent invite and a new drive
- flashbender0
online backup is the future
- Dancer0
Note to self.
Back up all external hard drives to DVD...