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Drew McElvain · April 20th, 2007, 01:18 AM

Hi,
I recently bought a lacie d2 250gb drive to acompany a first hard drive. I am using os 10.4.9. I pluged it in at first and it was fine then I tried staring it up when my other Maxtor drive was mounted and it unmounted the maxtor. I tried rebooting both drives and only the maxtor came back. Now, when I restart my computer with the lacie in it says that the disk is unreadable and will not mount. I try to initialize and it says input/output error. I have tried switching firewire cables, repairing disk permissions etc. Any help would be much apreciated.

Thanks
Drew

Michael Ferreira · April 21st, 2007, 10:39 AM

Drew,

Can you provide more information... what is the maxtor drive the first external you have..

what computer do you have... take some time if you can and provide a little more information.. i was trying to keep up with your post and you lost me man..

i think thats why no one has got back to you but ill give it a shot.

~Mike

Chris Harris · April 21st, 2007, 12:41 PM

Try opening up Disk Utility and formatting it if you don't have anything important on it.

Boyd Ostroff · April 21st, 2007, 12:47 PM

If the drive is still under warranty, and if there isn't anything important on it, then why not send it back for exchange or repair? This sounds like a hardware problem and it would be a good idea to get it fixed instead finding a workaround now which may come back to bite you later.

But you might also want to try it on a different computer just to see what happens.

April 20th, 2007, 01:18 AM	#1
Drew McElvain New Boot Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Boston, Ma Posts: 20	hard drive will not mount Hi, I recently bought a lacie d2 250gb drive to acompany a first hard drive. I am using os 10.4.9. I pluged it in at first and it was fine then I tried staring it up when my other Maxtor drive was mounted and it unmounted the maxtor. I tried rebooting both drives and only the maxtor came back. Now, when I restart my computer with the lacie in it says that the disk is unreadable and will not mount. I try to initialize and it says input/output error. I have tried switching firewire cables, repairing disk permissions etc. Any help would be much apreciated. Thanks Drew

April 21st, 2007, 10:39 AM	#2
Michael Ferreira Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Jupiter, FL Posts: 82	Drew, Can you provide more information... what is the maxtor drive the first external you have.. what computer do you have... take some time if you can and provide a little more information.. i was trying to keep up with your post and you lost me man.. i think thats why no one has got back to you but ill give it a shot. ~Mike __________________ ~ Mike

April 21st, 2007, 12:41 PM	#3
Chris Harris Major Player Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: San Francisco, California Posts: 487	Try opening up Disk Utility and formatting it if you don't have anything important on it. Last edited by Chris Harris; April 21st, 2007 at 12:43 PM. Reason: added more info

April 21st, 2007, 12:47 PM	#4
Boyd Ostroff Wrangler Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Mays Landing, NJ Posts: 11,802	If the drive is still under warranty, and if there isn't anything important on it, then why not send it back for exchange or repair? This sounds like a hardware problem and it would be a good idea to get it fixed instead finding a workaround now which may come back to bite you later. But you might also want to try it on a different computer just to see what happens.