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Crashed external SSD (mini) when upgraded to 10.8.2

I'm setting up a new 2012 Mac mini. I have an external SSD and HD. Everything was running fine until I upgraded to OS 10.8.2. I opened disk utilities to mount one of the drives and an error occurred in disk utilities ( with Red Letters )telling me that I had two choices. One was to ignore any other was to Fix both drives. I chose to fix. Disk utilities crashed and I went to look at it under force quit and it wasn't responding. After a reboot nothing was recognized. None of those two drives are seen by disk utilities anymore. Recovery is in question. Today I received a SSD drive for another boot up/backup external backup and disk utilities will not recognize that either. Nor will ask to initialize! What's going on here???

Posted on Dec 4, 2012 3:07 PM

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Posted on Dec 4, 2012 6:39 PM

What port are they conected to?


What kind of enclosure(s)?

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Dec 4, 2012 6:54 PM in response to BDAqua

I really don't think that's the problem . . .but they are both 2.5's in a sata enclosure with a 3.0 USB connection cabled to Mini. My research is took me to some notes from Apple making me suspect that after the 10.8.2 upgrade that it looked at my drives as Apples New Fusion Drive. Because the Error as explained in the link here :


http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5446


has very similar to what happened by losing all my data. What do you think? Thanks.

Dec 5, 2012 2:14 AM in response to robcart

Now! Things are really weird . . . . . . I had a bran new 1T External Toshiba 5400 HD and wanted to see if it would mount with this situation. Well it did mount and Apples Disc Utility did see it and it was formated with Windows NF File System (NTFS) so I formated to Mac OS X Extended (Journald) and it took that and stayed on the desktop and functioned they way it should. . . copy files but No System Yet. Then I started to notice how Safari and everything else was Running Very Slow! I ejected the external Toshiba HD . . .rebooted and everything was back to normal speed. I still can't mount the bran New External SSD . . . Thats shows me its the OS upgrade is treating that SSD differently ( with Smash & Burn ) . . . and I still think that the upgrade to OS X 8.2 is corroupting the system OS.


DOES ANY ONE KNOW HOW I CAN GO BACK TO THE OS X .8.1 THAT SHIPPED WITH THIS MAC MINI????


Thanks for your Reply.

Dec 6, 2012 2:46 PM in response to BDAqua

Thanks for your reply. I did finally get to go to restore and it took me to OSX 8.1 which it shipped with! Apples tech support told me I couldn't go backwards. . . . . And of course I did.I had to option R to get to Reastore Mountain Lion and go to another back up because I ran out of HD - SSD. It still won't recognize my New OCZ 256 with an external enclosure using USB3.0 but my next move after reading tech notes from OCZ.com is to hookup to the internal SATA and see if that does it. Will post latter. Thanks.

Crashed external SSD (mini) when upgraded to 10.8.2

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