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External hard drive no longer appears. How to try to recover contained data
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<blockquote data-quote="michelangelo" data-source="post: 1674726" data-attributes="member: 54225"><p>Additional info</p><p></p><p>My mac is presently only reserved for this repair. Time Machine is Off. Dropbox is Off. All network drives are disconnected. The sick Lacie disk is connected to the mac via Firewire and the sick LaCie_maus drive is mounted on the desktop. The expected recipient drive (G Drive JPS) is connected to the mac via USB. Mail is off. Only Safari and TextEdit are running. </p><p></p><p>The drive LaCie_maus mounts on the desktop. I can open its windows to show its content (but cannot copy, error code -36). </p><p></p><p>Disk Inventory X has shown once the content of the drive. This was before I used disk utility in an attempt to fix the LaCie_maus drive (and failed at it). Now it does not seem to succeed anymore. </p><p></p><p>In Terminal, the command: diskutil mount /dev/disk2s2 receives the reply: Unable to find disk for /dev/disk2s2. </p><p></p><p>Looking into this forum, I saw two general directions that I could follow:</p><p></p><p>Try to fix the drive. Diskwarrior seems to be recommended for that (I have its current issue and not tried it yet, by prudence, on the sick drive); or</p><p></p><p>Try to simply recover the data. Data Rescue 4 seems to be recommended for that; </p><p></p><p>There could be other options or other diagnostic tasks useful first. </p><p></p><p>Any advice will be appreciated. TIA</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="michelangelo, post: 1674726, member: 54225"] Additional info My mac is presently only reserved for this repair. Time Machine is Off. Dropbox is Off. All network drives are disconnected. The sick Lacie disk is connected to the mac via Firewire and the sick LaCie_maus drive is mounted on the desktop. The expected recipient drive (G Drive JPS) is connected to the mac via USB. Mail is off. Only Safari and TextEdit are running. The drive LaCie_maus mounts on the desktop. I can open its windows to show its content (but cannot copy, error code -36). Disk Inventory X has shown once the content of the drive. This was before I used disk utility in an attempt to fix the LaCie_maus drive (and failed at it). Now it does not seem to succeed anymore. In Terminal, the command: diskutil mount /dev/disk2s2 receives the reply: Unable to find disk for /dev/disk2s2. Looking into this forum, I saw two general directions that I could follow: Try to fix the drive. Diskwarrior seems to be recommended for that (I have its current issue and not tried it yet, by prudence, on the sick drive); or Try to simply recover the data. Data Rescue 4 seems to be recommended for that; There could be other options or other diagnostic tasks useful first. Any advice will be appreciated. TIA [/QUOTE]
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