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drive failure due to upgrade?
I had a major failure yesterday right after installing Security Update 2005-007 on my system and I was curious what other users might think about this particular situation or whether they had seen something similar.
My system is a Quicksilver G4 with dual 1GHz processors. I am under OS X 10.3.9 running FCP HD 4.5. My media drive was a 120GB Western Digital (WD1200 Caviar).
After my security update, I started a project in FCP using Capture Now. After about three clips, the capture froze for a moment after about 2 minutes and the resulting file was corrupted. I replaced that clip with no trouble. At the end of the next capture, however, when I hit the ESC key, I got the spinning beach ball of death and it wouldn’t go away. The capture window never closed and I couldn’t even force quit FCP. I had to restart the machine with the power button as nothing else would respond. After restart, the same problem occurred. However, this time when I forced a restart, I kept hearing one of my drives spinning up and down while the monitor sat on a blue screen. Once I got the system back up, I got a message that I had inserted a drive that had no volumes OS X can read. Disk Utility recognized the drive in the machine, but not that it had any volumes on it. Disk Warrior wouldn’t recognize it either.
I am hesitant to wipe the drive. The disk had three partitions, and the third was never touched by FCP. Shouldn’t I be able to at least recover something from this disk?
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4 Replies
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Do you have a Disk Warrior Bootable CD-ROM disc? Startup from that and see if it can see and repair it. I’d be surprised if it couldn’t.
Rich Rubasch
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Yes, I booted from the CD-ROM and it still did not see that drive.
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Actually, let me elaborate. None of the partitions showed up under the Directory tab in Disk Warrior. The drive itself showed up under the “Hardware” tab, but I could only select “Test Device” under Manual Diagnostics. The test reported that the drive’s built-in S.M.A.R.T. diagnostics indicate the drive is functioning normally.
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Working with a fresh Seagate hard drive in my machine, I am having the same problem with Capture Now locking up. The factor that seems to be causing the trouble is when I capture for more than five minutes. I had this happen twice on a capture longer than that. After forcing the computer to shut down, I looked at my media drive and noticed the clip I had been capturing had expanded to fill up the drive to the limit I set in scratch disks.
Recapturing in pieces under 5 minutes allowed me to continue with no trouble.
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