Seagate 4 TB partitioned volumes greyed out on MacBookPro (10.6.8)
My Macbook Pro (late 2007) OSX 10.6.8 is not reading a 4 TB Seagate external drive. 1 TB is partitioned for Carbon Copy Cloner and 3 TB contains my Music. I had issues yesterday with the Music volume appearing greyed out. After restarting via Startup Disk, the music volume appeared. I went a bit ahead of myself and tried rebooting through CCC. The system powered on with a ding, but I got this spinning grey circle and after 45 minutes I powered off by pressing the power button for 7-10 seconds.
When I powered on the Mac and plugged in the external drive, the finder wouldn't read it. Disk Utility shows both volumes greyed out, but the drive name/disk description is there. Both Verify Disk and Repair Disk say the volumes are fine. I tried switching USB cables, but nada.
Please help. I have been using this external drive for the last 3 years without a problem. It's a lifetime of music from LPs, 8-tracks, tapes and CDS.
Should I try Diskwarrior or TechToolPro? Any other tips?
Ist dies eine gute Frage?
Can you mount it from disk utility? If you can't try from another mac.
von Kevin
Wasn't reading from another Mac. But... I just turned it on after 24 hours and it's reading the music drive now!!! Fingers crossed until I back it up. Thanks a lot.
von dr saxena