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Hi all. I have an odd problem. I have been using a 1tb external WD elements hd for my time machine back-up and as an external hard drive. I formatted half the drive to use as time machine, and the other half is formatted as an external drive for use on both my macbook and my wife's windows machine. For months this setup has been working just fine. Recently for some odd reason my macbook stopped recognizing the drive. My wife's windows machine easily recognizes and is able to read the side of the drive formatted for external drive use. My macbook refuses to recognize both the external drive half of the drive, and the time machine half. I am using the same usb wires for both machines, so the wire is good. I am using the same usb port on my macbook for other stuff in addition to the drive, so the port is good. When I plug the drive into my macbook, the little blue light on the back of the drive lights up and I can hear the drive spinning up.
When I run disk utility, first aid, it starts then says first aid stopped repairing disk, first aid was unable to repair disk.
First aid will recognize the drive, but won;t recognize the two partitions on the drive, I even tried formatting the drive using utility, with no luck.
When I try erasing the disk using disk utility, it gets caught up in the unmounting disk phase and eventually is unable to erase the disk.
Any suggestions?
p.s. If it matters, I am running an aluminum macbook, OSX 10.6.2, and have all the current updates.
When I run disk utility, first aid, it starts then says first aid stopped repairing disk, first aid was unable to repair disk.
First aid will recognize the drive, but won;t recognize the two partitions on the drive, I even tried formatting the drive using utility, with no luck.
When I try erasing the disk using disk utility, it gets caught up in the unmounting disk phase and eventually is unable to erase the disk.
Any suggestions?
p.s. If it matters, I am running an aluminum macbook, OSX 10.6.2, and have all the current updates.