Hi, I have a freecom 1TB hard drive which was working fine until it froze. I pulled it out (mistake I now know) and now it doesn't mount. It shows up in Disk Utility but won't manually mount. When I try to repair it gives message 'failed on exit'. hel

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Hi, I have a freecom 1TB hard drive which was working fine until it froze. I pulled it out (mistake I now know) and now it doesn't mount. It shows up in Disk Utility but won't manually mount. When I try to repair it gives message 'failed on exit'. hel

Hi, I have a freecom 1TB hard drive which was working fine until it froze. I pulled it out (mistake I now know) and now it doesn't mount. It shows up in Disk Utility but won't manually mount. When I try to repair it gives message 'failed on exit'. Some people have said to try Disk Warrior, but at $100 it's quite expensive maybe fix. help!

PowerBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Sep 27, 2013 5:40 PM

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dalstott

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Sep 28, 2013 1:24 PM in response to Chicadee6

You likely need to reformat the drive which will destroy all data and you need a backup to restore it. If no backup is present then a data retrieval service can be more expensive than DiskWarrior. There is software that can rescue the data but I can not vouch for it's effectiveness as I have always maintained backups. .

http://www.prosofteng.com/

http://www.wondershare.net/ad/data-recovery-mac.html?gclid=CLTp3Mj07rkCFevm7AodL lUAHw

http://diskdoctors.com/software/mac-data-recovery/utility.asp?gclid=CMyf_MH17rkC Fcvm7AodSE0A8A

http://www.cleverfiles.com/

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Oct 1, 2013 8:24 AM in response to dalstott

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately though, the first link is more expensive than Diskwarrior and as I said before I'm reluctant to spend such a sum on a program that might not even fix the problem. The second link doesn't work with Tiger 10.4.11. The third link Disk Doctor I tried and it took almost 2 days to scan only to find out that it couldn't find anything wrong and forth link Disk Drill also doesn't work on Tiger 10.4.11 either. So still at a loss. The funny thing is when I plug the hard drive into my Sony multi media player it works on the tv fine? So it must definately be some programming problem with Tiger. Does any body else have any answers?

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