Rick Womer wrote:
I picked up my new MacMini today, my new recreational computer.
Two of my three external hard drives aren’t working: One has an irreparably
damaged partition map, and another (my main external drive) has its light blink
for a few seconds and click, but doesn’t show up at all.
Could the crashing i/o card on the old Mini have damaged these drives? Is there
any way to repair the one that’s not showing up at all?
My guess is that they are USB drives? Spinny drives?
Are they powered from the wall or over the USB cable?
Can the drives be removed from their case and read directly as SATA
drives?
I haven't done that level of programming on USB and/or hard drives, but
while I could see a partition map being splattered by random writes,
it's hard to imagine physical damage to hard drive itself.
Something like this and some good disk recovery software might solve
your issues:
http://www.kingwin.com/storage/docking-stations/ezd-2535/
Or just move the hard drives to different cases and see if a different
USB<->SATA controller does a better job.
In the short term, get another external drive so you don't mess things
up irreperably.
To be extra safe, you could try getting a couple of docks/cases, then
maybe use dd to make a direct copy of your old drive to your new drive,
then try to repair the partition table on the new drive.
Or, you could just chalk it up to bad luck and go to your other backup
drive.
Rick
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