Even so, I would kinda' like to have access to the incremental backups
from the last nine months if I ever needed them. But not enough to send
the drive out to an OMG expensive data recovery firm or even buy
moderately expensive data recovery software.
I guess I could just give up on it and just try an erase/reformat-
though I'm not sure I'd trust the disk any more.
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:
Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> wrote:
Even so, I would kinda' like to have access to the incremental backups
from the last nine months if I ever needed them. But not enough to send
the drive out to an OMG expensive data recovery firm or even buy
moderately expensive data recovery software.
I guess I could just give up on it and just try an erase/reformat-
though I'm not sure I'd trust the disk any more.
I see no need to discard the drive just over a corrupted filssystem.
You could connect the drive to your router (if it supports it) and use
it as an alternate Time Machine target (after wiping it).
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