1 Topic by cinzietta

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Topic: HDD not detected on GParted Live

Hi.
Yesterday I tried to start a windows virtual machine from mac OS with virtualbox, I had created a 100 GB VDI virtual disk on my 2 TB Maxtor M3 hard disk, suddenly while I started the virtual machine the hard disk has disconnected and mac has given the error message, I tried again then the disk was no longer recognized, I tried to do the SOS of mac but it didn't help, I downloaded diskdrill and I eliminated the corrupt blocks and now the hard disk is not seen anymore! Neither from Mac OS nor from GParted, do any of you know what could have happened? thanks!

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Re: HDD not detected on GParted Live

I think you have to check if the hard drive is working.
- You can try connecting the drive to another USB port. Eventually, you can try to change the connecting cable.

- You can try the hard drive to any other computer, to see if it is detected.

- Look if the drive is detected by the computer's BIOS.

- If the drive is detected by the BIOS, you can check the SMART info by running a Live Linux distro (GParted Live can be used for this, run the smartctl command from a terminal window).

- Under Linux, you can see the dmesg report from a terminal (as root or sudo) and look about error messages after you plug the disk.

- Use manufacturer's checking software to check the condition of the drive.

I remember some problems in the past with a Seagate (or Maxtor?) USB drive falling in sleep mode. I had to disable power save mode.

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***