Q: external WD HD no longer mounts
Hi guys,
I've got a WD 500gig 3.0 USB external drive, that no longer mounts on mac Lion or Snow Leopard.
The HD is partitioned into 3 parts:
1) PC (FAT)
2) Mac(journaled)
3) Time machine
The Mac HFS+ journaled partion pops up and dissappears when I plug in the USB drive. Neither Disk Utillity or Disc Warrior can see the USB drive connected.
When I restart my mac mini on Windows7, all partitions appears and I can read the PC and Mac partion without any problems (but not the timemachine).
So somehow, my WD USB 3.0 drive lost it's mac boot sector? Is there any way to restore the mac boot and mount?
I guess I can transfer my external drive content to my bootcamp partition... but 1mb takes about 5 min from HFS+ to NTSF... I should have bought 3 external drives, for PC, Mac and Timemachine. But my backpack is already crammed w so much tech...
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance, Antony
Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Posted on Apr 21, 2012 5:20 AM