![]() This will remove your previous partitions and you will lose the data on the disk. WD has a 3(?) year warranty ( you can check the warranty status of your drive here) on HDD's that suddenly fail which would cover a manufacturing error.īefore going through the tedious RMA process I would try to:Ģ) Reboot the Mac (without the drive connected)Ĥ) Open Disk Utility again and try to repair/fix the partitionĥ) Run sudo diskutil verifyVolume /dev/diskN (where N is the volume name not the disk name) to try and see if the file system structure can be read at all.Ħ) Depending on the outcome of the command (it should return something like "the volume X appears to be ok" if it's fine) I would try to repair it with sudo diskutil repairVolume /dev/diskNħ) As a last resort, run sudo diskutil eraseDisk with your preferred file system and new name for the drive) which will try to erase the disk and apply a new file system. (If you could post a picture of how the drive appears in Disk Utility it would be great!) Can't be 100% certain so if I were you I would definitely try to backup the other partition to another drive in case it fails as well. This has a chance of happening if you are writing/reading data and suddenly unplug your drive. I would guess it's most likely a logic corruption/error and not a physical corruption of the drive since the other partition seems unharmed. there have been several instances where the drive has been unplugged without being ejected correctly)? Is this a simple case of a failed drive (perhaps a defective product) or is this a symptom of a software related problem (e.g. I have drives that are older that are still ticking along nicely. ![]()
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