I am reformatting my defective drive...

Thanks for The replies and concern.

The concerned drive was originally in 3 partitions, all in NTFS. At that time I was a windows user. After buying my Mac [mainly using it for video editing purpose] I have got all the 3 partitions reformatted as Mac ext. journalled. Of late, FCPX would not open when this drive was plugged in, the reason being: a corrupt data base. I tried testing the drive with disk utility in which it stated that 2 of the volumes were in need of repair, and when I pressed the repair button, DU could nor repair because of this reason:

Subsequently, the disk would not eject at all and I had to force quit. Today when I plugged in this drive to my Mac, I found that the first volume of the drive [Seagate Camera Archives] has been christened as disk1s1, and when I tried to reformat the same, it gave this notification: the drive has to be reformatted.

That's the history. Right now, when I had selected GUID and tried to partition/erase [tried both], DU would not do it but gave this pop up:

What should I do next?

Thanks for your questions and and answers. As I have mentioned earlier [A major portion of my works have been already copied to two other drives. ] I have been very fortunate in being able to retrieve most of my works from this sick drive 3 weeks ago itself and have them now in two other HDs [one of them is a LaCie and the other is another Seagate]. I do not have to fear about loss of data but my apprehension is directed towards this: what will the absence of this drive's data have upon the projects which I have on them...FCPX is a complex application and I hope that the job of duplicating [with the used clips] of my projects which I had done via FCPX and not via Finder will be read without trouble by FCPX.

I have a special fear over this matter: upon advice received in this forums, I had redirected iTunes file storage to this 'sick or dying' ext HD. I know that as and when I start working upon FCPX I will be knowing the answer myself, but until then, the apprehension remains.😐

Sorry for this delay. Thanks for your observation regarding performance of Goflex agent. Do wish I had this information with me two months ago! I had purchased a new 2TB Goflex drive at about that time.

My earlier Goflex seems to have 'died'...just one year into its use. It is covered by a 'limited warranty', but, the damage has been done.😟

I reside at Hyderabad, India, and in a recent visit to a digital shop I found out that they for sale only the ext. HDs of only three companies viz. WD, BUFFALO and Seagate.

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