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Mac mini - problems with external drive

  • 21-02-2009 5:42pm
    #1
    Richard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I have a mac mini connected to two external drives - one which stores all my music and movies, and another which is my Time Machine backup.

    I haven't used Time Machine for ages but I got a message today saying that Time Machine hadn't backed up for 419 days.

    When I checked the Time Machine system prefs, it did show that the last backup was late 2007, though when I opened the Time Machine backup volume itself, there were more recent backups - certainly some from this year.

    I thought it might be an idea to reboot, but when I did, the Time Machine backup volume didn't mount at all. In Disk Utility the disk shows up, but there are no volumes on it. As I think the Disk only contained a Time Machine Backup, I tried to reformat the disk, but this failed with a message saying that the operation had timed out.

    The disk activity light is constantly flashing and there are some disk noises, but I can't get it to work properly.

    Any thoughts? I think the disk is probably a gonner, but any suggestions for how I could fix it are appreciated.

    Cheers.


Comments

  • #2
    Richard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭Richard


    OK, now it has appeared on the desktop. I did not do anything, it just appeared. Any thoughts? Should I replace it?


  • #3
    nialler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 896 ✭✭✭nialler


    Run disk warrior over it and see what it reports, could be a drive failure.


  • #4
    BrookieD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,705 ✭✭✭BrookieD


    run disk utility on the volume,


  • #5
    Richard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭Richard


    Thanks for the replies.

    Disk Utility says it's fine.

    What is Disk Warrior? I presume it does more than Disk Utility, Is it expensive?


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