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Hi all,
I just had a disaster the other day... My WD 1.5tb external has been hooked up to my iMac. I restarted my iMac and it wouldn't boot up (running the latest version of Lion). I tried to restart, attempting to zap PRAM and it still wouldn't boot. I finally disconnected both my WD external drives and it finally restarted properly. When I plugged in my 2 external drives, only 1 of them showed up. The second took forever then I got the "drive connected cannot be recognized" message.... Ugh.
Disk utility eventually could see the drive but not the partition and I checked the drive to see if I could hear any issues with it and it appears to be fine (no clicking, grinding sounds etc).
I looked everywhere to see what to do and I stumbled onto Perro Hunter's post about how to use testdisk to recover a lost partition,( http://perrohunter.com/read/30/repair-a-mac-os-x-hfs-partition-table) only I can't get past stage 9 because the terminal is telling me that I don't have permission to write to the disk.
I don't have access to a pc so I can't check the drive in Windows and I am trying desperately to salvage this drive. It's got too much unbackedup data.
The drive is about 1 yr old and has never had any hard jolts or anything, it's always worked perfectly. I originally formatted as Mac OS Extended Journaled.
Is there anyone who can give me any guidance as to what to do? I am sick at this stage.. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated....
I just had a disaster the other day... My WD 1.5tb external has been hooked up to my iMac. I restarted my iMac and it wouldn't boot up (running the latest version of Lion). I tried to restart, attempting to zap PRAM and it still wouldn't boot. I finally disconnected both my WD external drives and it finally restarted properly. When I plugged in my 2 external drives, only 1 of them showed up. The second took forever then I got the "drive connected cannot be recognized" message.... Ugh.
Disk utility eventually could see the drive but not the partition and I checked the drive to see if I could hear any issues with it and it appears to be fine (no clicking, grinding sounds etc).
I looked everywhere to see what to do and I stumbled onto Perro Hunter's post about how to use testdisk to recover a lost partition,( http://perrohunter.com/read/30/repair-a-mac-os-x-hfs-partition-table) only I can't get past stage 9 because the terminal is telling me that I don't have permission to write to the disk.
I don't have access to a pc so I can't check the drive in Windows and I am trying desperately to salvage this drive. It's got too much unbackedup data.
The drive is about 1 yr old and has never had any hard jolts or anything, it's always worked perfectly. I originally formatted as Mac OS Extended Journaled.
Is there anyone who can give me any guidance as to what to do? I am sick at this stage.. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated....
