Hi,
I am running Leopard 10.5.8 on a macbook with an internal hard drive with 5 partitions.
Yesterday I bought a Western Digital (WD) 500GB portable hard drive and was able to access it on the macbook. It has an NTFS partition and a WD SmartDrive CD partition. I ejected the disk yesterday after use.
Today, when I again connected the disk, it did not mount.
I used "diskutil list" command to list the partition table. It listed all my internal hard drive partitions but then got hung while trying to list the partitions on WD disk. I had to do control-C to get the command prompt again.
After a few minutes, when I used "diskutil list" command again, it listed only the GUID partition of the internal hard drive and then got hung.
Now, after a few more minutes, "diskutil list" command does not list anything. It just hangs.
Also, now when I launch any application, it keeps bouncing in the Dock and never really opens up.
What exactly is happening to my mac? I am currently logged into it and am afraid that if I reboot it, my mac may become totally unusable.
Thanks for any help !
I am running Leopard 10.5.8 on a macbook with an internal hard drive with 5 partitions.
Yesterday I bought a Western Digital (WD) 500GB portable hard drive and was able to access it on the macbook. It has an NTFS partition and a WD SmartDrive CD partition. I ejected the disk yesterday after use.
Today, when I again connected the disk, it did not mount.
I used "diskutil list" command to list the partition table. It listed all my internal hard drive partitions but then got hung while trying to list the partitions on WD disk. I had to do control-C to get the command prompt again.
After a few minutes, when I used "diskutil list" command again, it listed only the GUID partition of the internal hard drive and then got hung.
Now, after a few more minutes, "diskutil list" command does not list anything. It just hangs.
Also, now when I launch any application, it keeps bouncing in the Dock and never really opens up.
What exactly is happening to my mac? I am currently logged into it and am afraid that if I reboot it, my mac may become totally unusable.
Thanks for any help !
