not seeing hard drive

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not seeing hard drive

I have 3 hard drives in my mac pro, all internal, which have been fine up until a week ago, now for some reason Drive 3 seems to not show up sometimes.

I see it on the desktop, but then if i go to open a file from it, say an mp3, it doesnt load it. It says the file is 0 bytes.

Other times the drive simply isnt showing up at all.

I have to restart the mac and its ok then.

Anyone have any ideas or help on this problem?

Thanks

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4), 2 x 2.66 GHZ Dual CoreIntel Xeon.....5GB Ram.

Posted on Jan 30, 2014 7:06 AM

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kaz-k

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Jan 30, 2014 7:13 AM in response to elastic

Did you try Verify and Repair the disk with Disk Utility?

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elastic Author

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Jan 30, 2014 7:16 AM in response to kaz-k

yes, said it was fine

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The hatter

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Jan 30, 2014 8:24 AM in response to elastic

Bad sectors, don't really trust DU 100% all the time. I would backup twice, with checksum on file copies using CCC, and move the files off to another drive and work from there, then zero the drive totally and maybe use for backups.

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elastic Author

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Jan 30, 2014 8:29 AM in response to The hatter

i dont have the option of another drive unfortunately. the others are in use and dont have enough room.

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The hatter

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Jan 30, 2014 8:51 AM in response to elastic

I was suggesting buying some new drives anyway, to replace and add to what you have.

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elastic Author

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Jan 30, 2014 9:31 AM in response to The hatter

well i only recently bought the drive. buying another one isnt an option right now. id rather diagnose the problem properly than just buy another drive.

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The hatter

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Jan 30, 2014 2:07 PM in response to elastic

you need to off load files, you need to erase (zero or 3-way) or look for scanning the entire drive, not just user volume, for bad sectors.

So having a solid system drive, and backup, and not lose files.

new drive? warranty or another issue. I didn't see you say this new drive you just added and what make/model etc and focus on that problem.

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