External Drive

[ripit]

I have an external firewire drive that will not mount. When I run disk first aid it comes up with "invalid volume header", i try to repair (disk first aid) and re-mount but it does not work. Is this something Disk Warrior will be able to help me with? What other options do I have or is this disk toast?

[Cory Smith]

Diskwarrior might help..its worked miracles for me in the past.

[Fiz]

Did the drive come with setup disks? Could always try reinstalling drivers if it had any. Was the drive working before? Is it possible to connect it to a second machine and see if it mounts?

[steppy]

agree on the disk warrior!

If drive has other proprietary software components, like my fried maxtor that makes a mini RAID from two disks, forget it!

stephen

[ripit]

I am happy to report that Disk Warrior was able to repair the hard drive for me. I am now in the middle of making 2 copies of all the data on the drive and setting this drive out to pasture.