Unable to mount MyBook Studio

**Fathom** · 02-13-2009 08:33 PM

I have a WD Mybook Studio Drive, I am unable to mount the drive,
I have gone into disk utility and am unable to repair the HFS. I wanted to know if there were any free solutions out there to repair/recover the data. I have downloaded some data recovery software and it can see and read the drive but is $129 to repair it. I was hoping there are alternate solutions available.

Any help would be great. thanks

**spec09** · 02-15-2009 08:27 AM

The MyBook Studio should have come with a firewire and USB cables. Try turning off your mybook (unplugging it), plugging the opposite interface in, then plugging in the studio. I have had problems with this before and that always works.

**Wikinerd** · 02-15-2009 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by Fathom

I have a WD Mybook Studio Drive, I am unable to mount the drive,
I have gone into disk utility and am unable to repair the HFS. I wanted to know if there were any free solutions out there to repair/recover the data. I have downloaded some data recovery software and it can see and read the drive but is $129 to repair it. I was hoping there are alternate solutions available.

Any help would be great. thanks

Well depends. If you dropped it, (i.e. physical damage) or a hardware problem, there is very little you can do

**Peter25** · 03-02-2009 12:34 AM

I've got a similar problem. WD 1TB MyBook Studio drive. It worked fine for 8 months on FireWire; 2 partitions: 1 for time machine backup and 1 for video scratch.

I migrated the data from my iMac to a brandnew MacBook Pro but afterwards the external HD wouldn't mount on either computer.

HD utility does recognize the drive but doesn't recognize two partitions and wouldn't activate the drive. Repair status is allegedly OK. When connected, the drive is busy even when not accessed.

Disconnecting and rebooting doesn't help, even with alt+cmd+p+r. Switching to USB doesn't work either.

I'm not fond of the idea of reformatting and repartitioning because I would loose all my video projects on it.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Peter

**Wikinerd** · 03-03-2009 06:07 PM

@Peter: Maybe corrupt partition table?

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