Where to Begin....
Posted: 29 Oct 2013, 02:00
So a few weeks ago, I started receiving errors like this on my Mac's external USB 3GB drive, it stores all my music and photos.
Immediately, I ran Disk Utility which found myriad permission errors but advised all was well with the drive. Alerts kept firing until one day the drive just wouldn't mount at all. I stumbled across Testdisk and was advised that run if via terminal. Did that. After a few hours, received an alert that there was 0 space on my boot drive, even though I launched it from another external 1.5TB drive. I delete the 30GB log file, and rerun analyze with no log file. I get this:
4 days later, I receive the following:
If the partitions can't be recovered, what do/can I do now?
Immediately, I ran Disk Utility which found myriad permission errors but advised all was well with the drive. Alerts kept firing until one day the drive just wouldn't mount at all. I stumbled across Testdisk and was advised that run if via terminal. Did that. After a few hours, received an alert that there was 0 space on my boot drive, even though I launched it from another external 1.5TB drive. I delete the 30GB log file, and rerun analyze with no log file. I get this:
4 days later, I receive the following:
If the partitions can't be recovered, what do/can I do now?