[X-Newbies] Lost Disc / iPhoto library

[Al Poulin]

On Jan 12, 2006, at 5:54 AM, Tony Johansen wrote:

> Emergency problem here, one of my external drives accidentally was
> disconnected while doing some other work. I got a box stating that the 
> disc
> had not been dismounted correctly.
>
> Upon reconnection 5 of the 6 partitions remounted on the desktop, the 
> 6th
> did not appear at all. And guess what, its the one with the iPhoto 
> library
> on it. All 7,000 photos.
>
> Looked in Disc Utility and can see the 'lost' partition, I verified 
> the disc
> and it came up as being ok. So I unmounted it then tried to unmount the
> other partitions.
>
> Here it gets weird, one of the mounted partitions cannot now be 
> unmounted.
> When attempting to do so a box appears saying it is in use and to quit
> applications. There are no applications open. However I discovered on 
> the
> desktop a folder with the same name as the partition that won't 
> unmount. I
> can't get rid of that folder, it will not delete and if I try to move 
> it
> 'into' the partition it becomes an alias and the original still sits 
> on the
> desk top
>
> So I have one partition that won't unmount, and one that won't mount.
>
> Any suggestions?

I would try DiskWarrior on it.  And maybe TechToolsPro.

Al Poulin
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