Diskwarrior External Drive

separately before installing Leopard again. This morning my MacBook Pro seems to be OK with everything I've tried except that I haven't yet tried to plug in my external drive array. That's my next step, and I'll let you know how that turns out. ...

I have an external hard drive (Maxor 3200) with both a Windows and OS X partition. About 5 days ago the windows partition was messed up when I had to kill power to the computer when it locked up without ejecting the disc properly. A day ago I had my external HD connected to my macbook while I tried to see if there was anything I could do to fix the Windwos partition in OS X...

button. In most cases, the selected drive will become the boot drive. ...

I guess that is your first crash. It looks like the system is crashing at disk arbitration, attempting to mount the external disk. ...

What I did was clone my startup drive to my external drive. ...

When I called Fantom Drives for support they told me that I lost my partition due to corruption, but that was about it. I have a 150GB hard drive that supports FAT 32. ...

Sounds like you have cross linked files on your external drive. Meaning, you will need to pickup Diskwarrior or another utility to repair those files. ...

The computer's internal drive is used by someone else for work during the day. ...

install the os, or I could probably recover the drive and the data using DiskWarrior. I didn't have much confidence in my backup on a usb external drive, so I elected to buy DiskWarrior and give it a try. ...

install your system or boot from a firewire drive with an OS on it to rule out software fault first. ...