External Hard drive problem

[Timotheos]

I accidently unplugged my external harddrive and when I plug it back in it doesnt mount on my computer properly.

It shows up in disk utility, I have attached a screenshot of the 'info' window.

Im running 10.3.9 on a G4 Powerbook

[eric2006]

Have you tried running the "repair disk" function in Disk Utility?

[Timotheos]

Yeah I have done that but it shows up fine

"Repairing disk for “Tims External HD”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume Tims External HD appears to be OK.

Repair attempted on 1 volume"

I just opened disk utility again and it showed the proper harddrive icon, then I repaired the disk again and it went back to the strange 'paper/document' icon thats in my first attachment

[Kees Buijs]

Originally Posted by Timotheos

I accidently unplugged my external harddrive and when I plug it back in it doesnt mount on my computer properly.

It shows up in disk utility, I have attached a screenshot of the 'info' window.

Im running 10.3.9 on a G4 Powerbook

It looks like the harddrive has for some reason been emptied (due to improper disconnect most likely). Disk repair might help, but otherwise you need a utility which can recreated a drive from the file contents only (bytes used = 0, files = 0 means the drive is completely blank).


Good luck, Kees

[Timotheos]

ah, that sucks. Thanks alot for your help!

[ex2bot]

Take a look at Diskwarrior or Techtool Pro.

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[Satcomer]

If you unmount not properly then the simplest fix is to not plug it back in and reset your Pram. Then reconnect the external, it should mount. Good Luck.

[Timotheos]

I took the hard drive and plugged it into one of the powermacs at Uni and it showed up and worked fine then when I took it home it worked fine again.

I'll keep that Pram link handy for next time I try to ruin my hard drive