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I dropped my hard drive!

I bought my Western Digital drive before the Next Web Apps 2008 event earlier this year. I used this one to record videos, so it has movies in it. It was working OK until I did something terribly wrong …

I wanted to move my machine from my bed to my table, so I lifted my notebook up as I should do. The only thing that I didn’t realize was that my external drive is still plugging into my notebook. It was really a bad mistake, since the drive just dropped on the floor!

Whoops! I thought everything would be OK, since the drive would park its head after it disconnected. However, when I plugged the drive in, the light keeps blinking and it won’t mount. I disconnected the drive and found out a log in Console

This doesn’t sounded good to me .. since it means the drive is fault! So, I plugged in the drive, and hope fsck will fix my drive …

Unfortunately, it still didn’t work .. So I tried to disconnect and plug it in again. When I look at the activity monitor, I found out that it really runs fsck_hfs .. but it couldn’t fix my drive ??

After the auto fixing couldn’t solve the problem, it’s time to bring a big guy in: Disk Utility! I used Disk Utility to repaired my drive. Unfortunately again, it couldn’t fix my drive! Maybe because it also uses fsck_hfs as Finder did

So, I thought that I screwed my drive, and I would lost all of the data altogether. However, I found out that somebody used DiskWarrior to rebuild their drive and it works. So, I gave it a short …

Finally! Disk warrior was able to fix the problem on my drive. Now I can use my drive for backup and store lots of stuff again

Thanks, DiskWarrior!