You guys gave me confidence and advice in buying my imac, now I must turn to you again!
I have the newest updated imac i7. Will post specs below.
I also have an external Samsung 1 tb connected using a usb dual docking bay connected with a usb 2.0 cable.
This is where I may have failed:
I was burning a data cd-r with files that were ON the external harddrive.
So I did not drag the files I wanted burnt onto my desktop.
Instead I inserted the cd-r, then on the finder opened my harddrive and dragged the files onto the cd. Then clicked burn. M
Midway at the finalizing stage, the harddrive unexpectedly Ejected itself.
The dialogue box stating it ejected popped up.
Then, I shut down my dock and tried to boot it up again.
When I open Disk utilities, I notice that the hard drive is mounted, but the indented "volume" underneath, is grayed out and is unable to mount.
I did a first aid-verify disk on both icons and both said disk "appears to be OK."
I tried shutting down my Imac and removing all usb cables and even turning off the power surge that it's connected to. I let it sit for a little bit and restarted everything.
Still the same.
Side Notes:
- I DID notice this happen to another one of my portable harddrives the other day. But it simply remounted after a while. Didn't think much of it. Plus, that may have been a loose power cable.
- It's a dual bay dock, so I had another harddrive in it, that did not unmount. And can still mount correctly. I have taken that harddrive out of the picture while trying to fix the 1tb samsung. It is not plugged in any more.
-I would preferably .. actually vital.. would like to keep the data on the disk. Simply reformatting it would kill me. And my career as a filmmaker!
Thank you everybody in advance for your advice.
Let's hope stuff works.
Andrew
IMAC:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac11,3
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.93 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s
Boot ROM Version: IM112.0057.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.59f2
I have the newest updated imac i7. Will post specs below.
I also have an external Samsung 1 tb connected using a usb dual docking bay connected with a usb 2.0 cable.
This is where I may have failed:
I was burning a data cd-r with files that were ON the external harddrive.
So I did not drag the files I wanted burnt onto my desktop.
Instead I inserted the cd-r, then on the finder opened my harddrive and dragged the files onto the cd. Then clicked burn. M
Midway at the finalizing stage, the harddrive unexpectedly Ejected itself.
The dialogue box stating it ejected popped up.
Then, I shut down my dock and tried to boot it up again.
When I open Disk utilities, I notice that the hard drive is mounted, but the indented "volume" underneath, is grayed out and is unable to mount.
I did a first aid-verify disk on both icons and both said disk "appears to be OK."
I tried shutting down my Imac and removing all usb cables and even turning off the power surge that it's connected to. I let it sit for a little bit and restarted everything.
Still the same.
Side Notes:
- I DID notice this happen to another one of my portable harddrives the other day. But it simply remounted after a while. Didn't think much of it. Plus, that may have been a loose power cable.
- It's a dual bay dock, so I had another harddrive in it, that did not unmount. And can still mount correctly. I have taken that harddrive out of the picture while trying to fix the 1tb samsung. It is not plugged in any more.
-I would preferably .. actually vital.. would like to keep the data on the disk. Simply reformatting it would kill me. And my career as a filmmaker!
Thank you everybody in advance for your advice.
Let's hope stuff works.
Andrew
IMAC:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac11,3
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.93 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s
Boot ROM Version: IM112.0057.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.59f2
