External Drive Partitions Corrupt

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External Drive Partitions Corrupt

I have an external hard drive with 3 partitions. Lately, seemingly at random, the partitions are becoming unmountable (usually one per day). Running Disk Utility always repairs the partition without issue. Its very annoying. Any suggestions?

OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 4GB RAM

Posted on Dec 5, 2012 9:14 AM

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Dec 6, 2012 5:44 PM in response to chownsb

I just noticed that when this happens if I simply unplug the external drive's USB cable and plug it back in, the partitions all mount properly. The only way to mount them without unplugging is to "repair" them.

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