Sudden fail to read external hard drive

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Sudden fail to read external hard drive

Hi, Im using both OSX and Windows 8.

And I usually store my stuffs such as movies, documents, and some utilities in my 1TB external hard drive. And Its format is "Mac OS Extended".

There was no problem until just now. After I got home and tried to load out some stuffs inside this external hard drive, finder says it could not find this external hard drive.

So I executed disk utility in order to repair disk ASAP before this situation getting worse. but this time, Disk Utility says "Error: Disk Utility can't repair this disk... disk, and restore your backed-up files."

I was so confused about how this happened to this EHD, and don't know what to do with my 8years old documents and movies inside.

With all my wishes, I connected this EHD with my Windows8, somehow it can read this EHD and nothing problems. And still my stuffs alive.

Any suggestions to make my Mac to read this EHD again in order to solve this inconvenience?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), +Time Capsule

Posted on Mar 3, 2014 6:15 AM

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a brody

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Mar 3, 2014 2:29 PM in response to Wajak

Copy all the information onto an ExFAT formatted hard drive.

Your hard drive is likely dying.

ExFAT is likely more readable than HFS+ by both machines.

Alternatives here for formatting are:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3003

Data recovery options are here:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-1689

You should never let yourself only have one copy of critical data. Backup your data regardless.

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