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Unreadable HD-W2 disc on mac, what to do?

Started by lh49, December 11, 2009, 04:38:26 PM

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lh49

December 11, 2009, 04:38:26 PM
   

Hi, i set up a 1TB HD-W2 Buffalo disk on a mac using the RAID utility, hoping that if one disk failed the other would preserve my data. However, today I connected the drive to my mac as usual and got "The disc is unreadable, click to initialise". Disk utility couldnt fix the problem.

 

Am i completely wrong in thinking somewhere inside the shell, all my data is there? Or have i lost it by completely not understanding how RAID works :(

 

Could anyone tell me if theres any hope of accessing my data, and if so, how on earth to do it?

 

Im running a intel mac with snow leopard & everything was working fine up until today.

 

Many thanks

 

 

 

 

 

Colin137

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December 15, 2009, 06:12:42 PM

If the Mac shows the disk as unreadable, it's most likely due to filesystem or RAID corruption, which RAID unfortunately does not protect against. I recommend seeking help from a data recovery service if the data is critical.

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