Q: Mavericks corrupts external hard drive

As far as I know file recovery software is the only way recover lost data.

have the exact same issues with maverick - very frustrating

Problem description:

Has Mavericks corrupted my external hard drive and is it hopeful that I may retrieve lost volumes and data that were stored there?

My 2TB OWC Elite Pro has lost it’s partitions and data backed up within them.

Used this external hard drive for nearly 3 years with previous OSX 10.8.5, using it with Mavericks- probably a couple months. 

Drive worked fine connected via firewire, now just disappeared & is not even readable on my other IMac either, anymore.

Message,  “The disk you inserted is not readable by this computer.”

Can not verify or repair it with disk utility.

Using my firewire cable even disk utility doesn’t see anything, with USB it shows 4.14 GB (with no volumes visible or available)

I partitioned 3 GUID partitions with MAC Disk Utility nearly 3 years ago when I first got this external drive.

I have seen problems stated about using Mavericks and external hard drives crashing.

I guess I need data retrieval; OWC gives a 3 year warranty on their drive so that’s good, they don’t retrieve data.  I can not afford data retrieval and another hard drive to back this up (if it is in fact retrievable), before my warranty expires.

Anyone have a clue or know of a fix?

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Report generated 7/13/15, 8:16 PM

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Hardware Information: ℹ️

    iMac (24-inch, Early 2009) (Verified)

    iMac - model: iMac9,1

    1 2.93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core

    4 GB RAM Upgradeable

        BANK 0/DIMM0

            2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok

        BANK 1/DIMM0

            2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok

    Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported

    Wireless:  en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n

Video Information: ℹ️

    NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 - VRAM: 256 MB

        iMac 1920 x 1200

System Software: ℹ️

    OS X 10.9.5 (13F34) - Time since boot: 2 days 2:43:23

Disk Information: ℹ️

    Hitachi HDT721064SLA360 disk0 : (640.14 GB)

        EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

        Untitled (disk0s2) / : 639.28 GB (514.85 GB free)

        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>  [Recovery]: 650 MB

    OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5670S 

USB Information: ℹ️

    OWC Mercury Elite Pro 4.14 GB

    Apple Inc. Built-in iSight

    Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub

        Mitsumi Electric Apple Optical USB Mouse

        Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard

    Seagate  FreeAgent 1.5 TB

        EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

        1 hd (disk1s2) /Volumes/1 hd : 536.87 GB (10.31 GB free)

        2 hd (disk1s3) /Volumes/2 hd : 962.95 GB (364.64 GB free)

    Western Digital  My Book          500.11 GB

        Untitled 1 (disk3s1) /Volumes/Untitled 1 : 107.78 GB (48.81 GB free)

        Music (disk3s2) /Volumes/Music : 118.52 GB (5.36 GB free)

        Videos (disk3s3) /Volumes/Videos : 273.81 GB (142.11 GB free)

    Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

    Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub

        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Gatekeeper: ℹ️

    Anywhere

Kernel Extensions: ℹ️

        /Library/Application Support/Avast/components/fileshield/unsigned

    [loaded]    com.avast.AvastFileShield (2.1.0 - SDK 10.10) [Click for support]

        /Library/Application Support/Avast/components/proxy/unsigned

    [loaded]    com.avast.PacketForwarder (2.0 - SDK 10.10) [Click for support]

        /Volumes/2 hd/Applications/DiskWarrior.app

    [not loaded]    com.alsoft.Preview (4.1.1) [Click for support]

        /Volumes/2 hd/Applications/Toast Titanium.app

    [not loaded]    com.roxio.BluRaySupport (1.1.3) [Click for support]

    [not loaded]    com.roxio.TDIXController (1.7) [Click for support]

Startup Items: ℹ️

    ProTec6b: Path: /Library/StartupItems/ProTec6b

    Startup items are obsolete in OS X Yosemite

Launch Agents: ℹ️

    [running]    com.avast.secureline.update-agent.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.avast.secureline.userinit.plist [Click for support]

    [running]    com.avast.update-agent.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.avast.userinit.plist [Click for support]

Launch Daemons: ℹ️

    [loaded]    com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.avast.init.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.avast.secureline.init.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.avast.secureline.uninstall.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.avast.secureline.update.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.avast.uninstall.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.avast.update.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist [Click for support]

User Launch Agents: ℹ️

    [loaded]    com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.avast.home.userinit.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.avast.secureline.home.userinit.plist [Click for support]

    [loaded]    com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Click for support]

    [running]    com.victorpimentel.TVShowsHelper.plist [Click for support]

User Login Items: ℹ️

    None

Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️

    JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.9.0 - SDK 10.7 Check version

    FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 18.0.0.203 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

    Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9

    Flash Player: Version: 18.0.0.203 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

    AdobePDFViewer: Version: 9.5.5 [Click for support]

    QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

    SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.5.0 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

    MeetingJoinPlugin: Version: Unknown - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]

    iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0

Safari Extensions: ℹ️

    Adblock Plus

    Avast Online Security

3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️

    Déjà Vu  [Click for support]

    Flash Player  [Click for support]

    TVShows  [Click for support]

Time Machine: ℹ️

    Time Machine not configured!

Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️

        58%    firefox

        14%    WindowServer

         6%    plugin-container

         1%    fontd

         0%    com.avast.daemon

Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️

    885 MB    firefox

    471 MB    kernel_task

    168 MB    Finder

    90 MB    plugin-container

    82 MB    WindowServer

Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️

    54 MB    Free RAM

    3.02 GB    Used RAM

    0 B    Swap Used

Diagnostics Information: ℹ️

    Jul 13, 2015, 08:58:04 AM    /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Finder_2015-07-13-085804_[reda cted].crash

    Jul 12, 2015, 02:50:36 AM    /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/helpd_2015-07-12-025036_[redac ted].crash

    Jul 12, 2015, 02:49:06 AM    /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/helpd_2015-07-12-024906_[redac ted].crash

    Jul 11, 2015, 05:29:40 PM    Self test - passed

Uninstall Avast anti virus as per the developers recommendations.

Cheers

Pete

had the same issue - two hard drives worked fine and the next day both went down.  i went to apple and they couldn't do anything but i was recommended to get diskwarrior.  worked perfect and got everything back and i've had no issues since. 

Thanks, PeterMac...  Will do.

I had just downloaded the Avast 30 day trial and it seemed like a decent program, but uninstalling seemed to free up a some virtual memory.  Of course, Avast has left its auto-update running (com.avast.secureline.update-agent.plist) and don't seem to have support on-line for removing the from MACs.

I am desperate! This month two external disks were wiped clean; one WD and one Toshiba.

I mounted them and both were empty renamed 'Mybook' and had an 'EFI" partition.

I have been using Mavericks for over a year and this is the first time I had this problem.

Aren't there any solutions to this problem yet?

Does upgrading to Yosemite help?

And sorry but having to buy a 119 dollar data recovery software to get my files back is unacceptable.

Shouldn't apple provide its customers a way to recover their data for free?

We have not only lost data but also the money we have paid for our external drives; if we can trust them, we can't use them.

sabigotho wrote:

Aren't there any solutions to this problem yet?

I think Western Digital updated their software long ago, although the best solution is to not use their software at all.

I've  never used their software, still I lost all my data

sabigotho wrote:

 

I've  never used their software, still I lost all my data

Then you need to figure out why.

There was never a problem with Mavericks or any other OS that caused loss of data off of drives. It was purely caused by Western Digital's software.

confused: isn't it what this thread is all about?

I have read many of that experienced the same problem as I; the disks getting renamed Mybook with an EFI partition and all the data gone.

How do I figure out what causes this problem, got any ideas?

sabigotho wrote:

 

confused: isn't it what this thread is all about?

I have read many of that experienced the same problem as I; the disks getting renamed Mybook with an EFI partition and all the data gone.

How do I figure out what causes this problem, got any ideas?

This thread was resolved to the problems caused by Western Digital software.

You should start your own thread describing the problem in detail and what you've done to troubleshoot.

Maybe someone has an idea what else might cause it.

Tacking onto this as many others have done isn't particularly productive.

I will! Thank you

sabigotho wrote:

 

 

Shouldn't apple provide its customers a way to recover their data for free?

 

Apple do better than that. They give you a free program called Time Machine so you can backup all your system and data and not have to pay for data recovery their supplied drives. Of course if an external Hard Drive craps out then that has nothing to do with Apple.

Cheers

Pete