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Advice on next steps for recovery? (WD 3TB MyBook Essential)
My Western Digital 3TB MyBook Essential (Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)) made a knocking noise a couple of years ago during a Time Machine backup on my mac:
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Ghost external HDD (OSX): nowhere to be seen
I need to retrieve a hard drive, which was used on Mac, but when connecting the drive it boots and lights-up, except that it doesn't mount, in fact it doesn't appear in my USB bus connection despite ...
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How likely is it that backups made against a failing hard drive will be corrupt?
I had the hard disk portion of a fusion drive fail, starting with slow access and culminating in unable to boot in a period of a day. I have regular Time Machine backups. I'd much rather restore the ...
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Can't access external harddrive in OSX
For some reason i can't access my external HDD anymore. It's not showing up in Finder, although i can see it in the Volumes folder and in Disk Utility app.
When i access the HDD from terminal and try ...
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Repair corrupt hard disk on Mac without install CD
The hard disk of my late 2009 MacBook Pro appears to have become corrupted. I am traveling and do not have my install CD (and won't for several weeks, nor will I be anywhere near an Apple store).
The ...
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