G-Drive issues....BACK UP this holiday season.

Hey folks,

I was on a windows PC when it froze and I had to do a hard reset, at the time I had my g-drive connected via e-sata.

Now the drive won't mount at all on the Mac, or be recognized in Disc Utility. I tried all ports usb/firewire, nothing.

On Windows it will recognize the drive but just as "Local Disk" and the letter (previous drive name is gone). If you click on the drive you get "Disc structure is corrupted and unreadable".

in disc management , it says the partition is healthy but it is now in RAW format (was HFS).

Any ideas on how to fix the disc or programs to back up the data would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Have you tried running disk warrior?



www.strypesinpost.com

> I was on a windows PC when it froze and I had to do a hard reset, at the time I had my g-drive connected via e-sata.

Using a drive on both PC and Mac on a regular basis is a bad idea.

As strypes said, I'd try DiskWarrior, but it's a Hail Mary pass. That said, before you say "My drive won't mount", know that DiskWarrior can sometimes see drives that OS can't.

Launch DiskWarrior, then plug the drive in. It often shows up in DiskWarrior's list while being unable to mount on the desktop.


www.derekmok.com

Good news and the strangest thing, after having it plugged into a PC for a good hour, (since at the time that was the only way to see the drive) I plugged it back into the mac and it mounted, correct drive name and all files intact.

Hey Derek,

I didn't know that "Using a drive on both PC and Mac on a regular basis is a bad idea." Does it alter the partition in some way?

Also is it just me or do G-drives seem really sensitive?

G-Drives are Hitachi, they work well.

Now would be a good time to do that DiskWarriior pass!

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Joe Riggs Wrote:
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> it froze and I had to
> do a hard reset, at the time I had my g-drive
>
Happened to me to.
Brought the drive back to the store since it was brand new.
Got another one.
Happened again a few weeks later.
Brought it back. Got my money back and bought a CalDigit.

Did you move your drive at all?

Based on my experience these drives don't like to be moved from one place to another even after you shut them down.

That's strnage; CalDigit always recommended Hitachi and Seagate!

You can't really expect to never move a drive.

And in about seven years of using them, I've only had one G-Drive die. That's certainly a better track record than what I've seen with the Lacies, Western Digitals or Maxtors that my clients sometimes buy just to save cash.

Any drive can die. You just have to have very good work habits and take care of them as well as you can.


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