A partition got renamed and unable to mount

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A partition got renamed and unable to mount

Hi, my macbook pro has two hard disks - a 500GB Samsung SSD 840 (which is where my OS is installed) and a 500GB Momentus XT. The momentus xt has three partitions. Recently one of the partitions was unable to be mounted and after several attempts of verify and repair disk and restart, the whole hard disk got implicated:

Whenever i restart, I receive the following warning - "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." I am unable to verify or repair the disk. In fact, from having three partitions, now all the partitions seem to have disappeared. However, I would like to believe that the data are still within the hard disk. Is there someone that can assist?

By the way, i was in the midst of spring cleaning with my data and this happened. For your information, my main SSD only left about 20GB.

The information of my mac is as below:

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on May 29, 2015 7:12 PM

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May 29, 2015 7:16 PM in response to wannabe1988

You may need to repair the disk or reset the permissions in disk utility.

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May 29, 2015 7:19 PM in response to Averythomas

Thank you for your reply. However, I am unable to repair the disk at the moment. Disk utility doesn't seem to let me do that. Basically I cannot do anything in the "first aid" tab.

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May 29, 2015 8:59 PM in response to wannabe1988

I just got hold of disk warrior but it doesn't seem to be able to detect my momentus xt drive. The only thing it allows me to do is to hardware diagnostics and both of my hard drives are reported to be functioning well. Does anyone know how to use disk warrior to detect the missing hard drive with its partitions?

Thank you in advance

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