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Re: Time Machine Current External Drive Won't Mount

From	nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Time Machine Current External Drive Won't Mount
Date	2018-07-15 13:19 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<150720181319216138%nospam@nospam.invalid> (permalink)
References	<pifua3$6oa$1@news.albasani.net>

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In article <pifua3$6oa$1@news.albasani.net>, Wade Garrett
<wade@cooler.net> wrote:

> Out of the blue, my three year old WD Elements 1 TB external USB 3.0 HD 
> with nine months of Time Machine backups on it won¹t mount in TM and 
> doesn¹t show in Finder. The drive light comes on initially and flashes 
> when accessed.
> 
> I changed out the USB cable, tried different USB slots on the computer, 
> even tried it with a different Mac, Windows PC and a Chromebook ‹ all zip.
> 
> The drive itself does show in Disk Utility- with an Eject icon- though 
> clicking it does not do anything. Running First Aid on the drive itself 
> returns a Pass.
> 
> Though the TM partition on the drive is grayed out, I can select it and 
> have run First Aid several times. It Fails with the following messages:

...

run disk warrior on it.

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Time Machine Current External Drive Won't Mount Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> - 2018-07-15 12:55 -0400
  Re: Time Machine Current External Drive Won't Mount nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-07-15 13:19 -0400
  Re: Time Machine Current External Drive Won't Mount nj_kruse@me.com (Niels Jørgen Kruse) - 2018-07-15 19:26 +0200
    Re: Time Machine Current External Drive Won't Mount Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> - 2018-07-15 19:02 -0400

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