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HELP!! - External Hard Drive Issue
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<blockquote data-quote="timnancyk" data-source="post: 1147547" data-attributes="member: 180912"><p>I have had a USB external hard drive for several years plugged into my Power G4. The partition type is Apple_HFS. Everything was fine until this morning. Out of the blue, I heard the drive turn off and back on. When OS 10.4.11 mounted the drive again it had crazy characters and the drives name had been changed to and a bunch of crazy characters that looked like files but had no size to them and when I would click on one it would disappear (see attached). The drive now reads 232GB available and 232GB available!! What?!!! I had over 98GB of files from over 10 years on this drive. I ran disk utility and there were no errors. I turned the drive off and back on with no luck. I rebooted with no luck. The drive will mount but now the partition type reads DOS_FAT_32 and all my files seem to be gone. What the heck happened and is there anyway to restore my files?</p><p></p><p>Someone PLEASE HELP!!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]13899[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timnancyk, post: 1147547, member: 180912"] I have had a USB external hard drive for several years plugged into my Power G4. The partition type is Apple_HFS. Everything was fine until this morning. Out of the blue, I heard the drive turn off and back on. When OS 10.4.11 mounted the drive again it had crazy characters and the drives name had been changed to and a bunch of crazy characters that looked like files but had no size to them and when I would click on one it would disappear (see attached). The drive now reads 232GB available and 232GB available!! What?!!! I had over 98GB of files from over 10 years on this drive. I ran disk utility and there were no errors. I turned the drive off and back on with no luck. I rebooted with no luck. The drive will mount but now the partition type reads DOS_FAT_32 and all my files seem to be gone. What the heck happened and is there anyway to restore my files? Someone PLEASE HELP!! [ATTACH=full]13899[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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