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External Hardrive not Mounting
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1631486"><p>Well, most likely the drive is in trouble. Whether or not it's hardware or software related depends on WHY you had to force eject it. At this point, with what you've said so far, I would recommend getting everything OFF the drive, then you can try a to repair it with disk utility and then if that fails, repartition/reformat to see if you can recover it back to normal.</p><p></p><p>The Lost+Found is just that, lost files that the OS doesn't know what to do with. They are in txt format so you can look at them, but they may well be binary and unreadable to you. What were you doing on December 30th that could have created a lot of little working files?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1631486"] Well, most likely the drive is in trouble. Whether or not it's hardware or software related depends on WHY you had to force eject it. At this point, with what you've said so far, I would recommend getting everything OFF the drive, then you can try a to repair it with disk utility and then if that fails, repartition/reformat to see if you can recover it back to normal. The Lost+Found is just that, lost files that the OS doesn't know what to do with. They are in txt format so you can look at them, but they may well be binary and unreadable to you. What were you doing on December 30th that could have created a lot of little working files? [/QUOTE]
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