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Posted by: macguy on 2011-04-09 10:22:07
My question/problem perhaps does not belong here and if so just let me know and i can delete the posting.
I have a FireWire 1 TB hard drive about two years old.
It has OS 10.6.7. It has 50 per cent free space.
Recently, after booting into this FireWire drive i tried to install data from DVD's . The data on these DVD's use the installer application.
When the installer has about one minute remaining i note that the activity led light on the FireWire hard drive just stays on red and the installer never finishes and all is frozen. Force quit does do anything.
Then i have to turn off my iMac ( 3.06 GHz ) meanwhile the FireWire stays on and the activity led light on the FireWired drive stays on red.
Only when i turn off the power to the FireWire drive and unplug the FireWire from the computer can i get the drive to work.
I have repaired the directory with DiskWarrior 4.3 and also TechTool Pro 6. Also repaired permissions.
Suggestions/help/advice please.
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Posted by: LCGuy on 2011-04-10 13:56:25
Have you tried doing a surface scan? Could be bad sectors.
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Posted by: macguy on 2011-04-10 20:47:03
Thanks. Good hint. I have never done that before with any of my computers or external hard drives.
If there are bad sectors will TechToolPro repair them somehow ?
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Posted by: LCGuy on 2011-04-11 00:45:57
The only way to repair bad sectors is to replace the drive. Speaking of which, is the drive still under warranty by any chance?
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Posted by: Bunsen on 2011-04-11 05:49:33
Can't you reformat it to ignore the bad sectors?
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Posted by: macguy on 2011-04-11 06:08:39
I tried several extended TechToolPro jobs and the activity led light on the FireWire hard drive just stays on red with no further response unless i power off the drive.
It looks as though i will have to take the drive back for some warranty work or some kind of adjustment to replacement. I have bought a number of external firewire drives from him and this is the first time that a drive has failed.
Thanks to all for spending your time to provide me with some self help guidance and advice.
I will post the results of my claim for warranty.
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Posted by: trag on 2011-04-12 10:29:43
When I had similar problems it turned out that the enclosure bridge (firewire to IDE bridge) was faulty. Not necessarily the case for you, but that's my experience.
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Posted by: macguy on 2011-04-12 10:40:44
Guy that sold me the hard drive suggested erase/reformat/re-install OS 10.6.7.
However as suggested by Bunsen i forgot to ask how to reformat it to ignore the bad sectors. I could not readily see that choice in DiskUtility.
That seems to have solved the problem. So far so good.
Thanks again to all here at this forum.
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Posted by: macguy on 2011-04-18 07:15:20
Spoke to soon. That drive has gone cafluee again. It seems that when it has to do an extensive job such as copy to or from very large (1G+) files it freezes. So i have to power off that drive and then power on to clear the "red" LED light. Obviously time for a "new" drive.
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