Firewire Failure, ext drive won't boot Options

[stratosfear]

dear friends,
i'm quite anxious about not being able to boot my firewire drive. Has anyone had a error message that reads " a disk attempting to mount as unknown has failed verification or has failed to mount. Please use disk utility to check the disk and correct any errors". The firewire has music i've been working 6 months on and I was trying to back the latest sessions up, and so i am treading very carefully with this problem.
I am running an mbox with 6.1 pro tools on a single 1.25 G4 using OS-X. Any remedies would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[Synthetic]

When i use the term ' boot' i simply mean, probably naively, to see the firewire on my desktop on startup.There was no lead up to this problem except my mac and my ext hardrive, genesys 40gig were no longer talking. I tell you synthetic it's like a rock band in there. Thanks

lol... a rock band in your computer

oh... I see what you mean... you actually just want it to mount on your desktop. As mentioed above... you should have some type of software that came with the drive that has a little app that should be able to mount your drive for you if it doesn't come up automatically. If that app has trouble finding and mounting your HD... you have a bad HD on your hands and might not be usable. Try also reinstalling any drivers related to the HD and see if that helps. I hate to think you lost all your work.

I just lost my internal drive on my G3... wasn't really that long ago... maybe a year or 2 that I bought it. It started acting very sluggish and tried running Norton on it... Norton had problems scanning it. I then immediately copied all files onto my 30gig firewire drive for backup and was about to format the internal drive when it just quit mounting like yours. It was making some funny sounds (mine was more like an industrial remix sound haha) just before it happened too. So luckily I got data off in time but now I am without music machine until I get new drive Hopefully your problem is not that serious though

Ce message a été modifié par Synthetic - lun. 25 août 2003, 23:58.