I create a new partition in an external hard drive with disk utility. Now it says mounting disk and it's taking forever. Is that normal? Please help!

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I create a new partition in an external hard drive with disk utility. Now it says mounting disk and it's taking forever. Is that normal? Please help!

I have an external hard drive from seagate. Tonight I decided to give it a try and add a new partition to it so I could have a bootable version of mountain lion in it it just in case of emergency and no internet. After creating the partition, disk utility says "mountain disk", and its been doing it for at least 20 minutes and not moving... Any ideas? btw, now the external drive is not even showing on the left-side bar...

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MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Disk Utility

Posted on Jan 14, 2013 10:18 PM

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mende1

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Jan 14, 2013 10:22 PM in response to Yassm10

Out of curiosity: are you creating a new partition or are you restoring Mountain Lion onto the external disk? If you are restoring Mountain Lion onto the external disk, that's completely normal

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Jan 14, 2013 10:23 PM in response to Yassm10

I would try reformatting the drive and creating the partition again. Make certain that you erase the drive and format it as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" and the partition the drive.

What you describe is not normal... try again.

Clinton

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