Q: External Harddrive won't stay mounted for more than a minute
So I have an external harddrive that will fire up and mount, but then about 10-30 seconds later, it will suddenly eject itself. I'll get the message that I unplugged the harddrive without ejecting. It WILL still show up in Disk Utility though.
I have tried it with different cords, and different ports: both FireWire 800 (with an adaptor for thunderbolt) and mini-USB. It has an eSATA port but I don't have a cable for that.
What ***** is that this one of two harddrives that I use in a RAID array to backup years worth of editing projects — what ***** about that is that I just discovered the RAID has not been working for a couple years, and files were being backed up to only ONE of the drives, not both. And guess which drive is now failing?
The Harddrives are ToughTech 2TB drives, purchased in 2010. I am using mid-2014 15-inch MacBook Pro, with Yosemite.
I'm willing to bet the HDD is just dying. But do you guys know of any recourse to getting the files off of it before it dies?? It's almost 1 TB of data that constitutes all of my work from the past 2 years!!
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)
Posted on Apr 20, 2016 12:59 PM