disk lost?

I have an external drive (WD) and have been using it up until just ten minutes ago. I did, however, have problems today that a lot of files could not open. Then I ejected (properly) and opened it again (because of the issue with the files) and now it will not mount at all anymore.

I get the following with fsck_hfs:

jos-elkinks-computer:~ joselkink$ fsck_hfs -d /dev/disk1
** /dev/rdisk1
Using cacheBlockSize=32K cacheTotalBlock=1024 cacheSize=32768K.
Block 2 is not an MDB or Volume Header
Block 976773166 is not an MDB or Volume Header
unknown volume type
primary MDB is at block 0 0x00
alternate MDB is at block 0 0x00
primary VHB is at block 0 0x00
alternate VHB is at block 0 0x00
sector size = 512 0x200
VolumeObject flags = 0x01
total sectors for volume = 976773168 0x3a386030
total sectors for embedded volume = 0 0x00

Does this mean all the information on this drive is lost?? That would be quite a serious loss ...

Message was edited by: Jos Elkink

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11), disk: WD 5000AAV External Media

Posted on Aug 14, 2008 9:32 AM

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Aug 14, 2008 10:19 AM in response to Jos Elkink

Hi Jos, and a warm welcome to the forums! 🙂

Unfortunately, Disk Utility/fsck can't fix all that much. Your best bet for repairing you HD is DiskWarrior from Alsoft...

http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/

If that shouldn't work, your best bet for recovering your data is Data Rescue II...

http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php

This last one would require another HD with plenty of space to recover to.

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