Diskwarrior External Drive

DiskWarrior !!!!!! DiskWarrior, three rebuild iterations, now I can mount and all my data seems to be there but I can't start in 10.2.3. Almost all of the several hundred files/directories that DW had to fix/relocate (etc) were related to the system so I'm not too surprised. i can start in 9. The directory structure was apparently wasted, but DW just crunched along and...

my own experience is that external firewire recognition problems reside with your system disk most of the time. ...

sure to dump your drive in the process. ...

drive, the volume structure can get pretty spread out if you are constantly adding and deleting files from it. this seems to hang osx up at times when mounting a drive at startup. ...

so much other info you should include to give us a decent shot of what is going on. like what versions of os are you using, what mac and other external devices, what brand hd, how old is the hd, what extra items are in your startup file, etc. ...

I once had a very big problem with a corrupted 80 gig external firewire drive, which happened to be my file server drive, and diskwarrios was the only app to successfully mount and repair the drive. ...

extent file that disk utility can't fix, you are going to need to buy a good third party diangnostic and repair progaram. If you can only afford one, i reccomend Diskwarrior from www.alsoft.com. I would order the disk and get plus optimize thrown in for a few bucks more. ...

well, it's a bit confusing here as to whether you are referring to partions or actual drives. If your osx is an external plug in drive, you can get diskwarrior to recognise it by plugging it in after launching diskwarrior. if it is internal or really a partition then that won't work. ...

I'm just trying to move files from one external hd to anoother. last night after i wrote my posts i ran diskwarrior on it and then it seemed to work in 9. after that i tried with x but still no luck. it froze after 14 mb of a 15mb transfer. ...

I would recommend Diskwarrior for this. I was able to restore recognotion to my external harddrive using it on the internal drive after disk first aid, fsck, norton and techtool pro had all failed. ...