Removable hard drive won't mount

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Captain Nemo - 16 May 2008 01:41 GMT

Hello all -

I added an HFS formatted removable hard drive to my Power Mac G5. It is a
USB drive with Classic files. Things were flakey, so I rebuilt the desktop
via Classic preferences (running Tiger, of course). The drive disappeared
from the desktop. "About this Macintosh" shows the drive present, as does
the Disk Utility. Upon Verification, Disk Utility reports it needs repair.
No surprise there, but upon repair, the attempt can't be completed.

Repair reports "Invalid Key Length" and "Volume check failed." What next?
Don't tell me to get the backup--this is the backup. My mistake was to do
anything before copying my files off, but I didn't think this was a bad
choice at the time.

Can anyone help?

...best, Capt N

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Mike Rosenberg - 16 May 2008 01:42 GMT

> Repair reports "Invalid Key Length" and "Volume check failed." What next?
> Don't tell me to get the backup--this is the backup. My mistake was to do
> anything before copying my files off, but I didn't think this was a bad
> choice at the time.
>
> Can anyone help?

Two words: Disk Warrior.

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Captain Nemo - 16 May 2008 02:03 GMT

Wow, Mike -- that was fast. My Disk Warrior is the classic version, It
doesn't see the drive. Do you think the OSX version might/will?

Thanks, Captain N (another Michael)

>> Repair reports "Invalid Key Length" and "Volume check failed." What
>> next?
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>
> Two words: Disk Warrior.

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nospam - 16 May 2008 03:20 GMT

> Wow, Mike -- that was fast. My Disk Warrior is the classic version, It
> doesn't see the drive. Do you think the OSX version might/will?

the classic version as in 2.x??? not only will that not work, it could
potentially make things worse if you manage to get it to see the drive.

a lot has changed since then, particularly with tiger and leopard, and
the recent versions are *much* faster.

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Howard S Shubs - 17 May 2008 16:36 GMT

> > Can anyone help?
>
> Two words: Disk Warrior.

Seconded. Disk Utility can only fix so much.

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Removable hard drive won't mount