I have a WD Mybook Studio 500gb that will not mount. I've tried every possible option in Disk Utility and it see the drive (unlike finder), but won't mount the partition. I also tried plugging it in to a PC and again W10 didn't see the drive, but I could perform diagnostics on it via WD's tool (but no fix in sight).
I did some digging with with testdisk and the data is intact, no errors, I can see the file structure on the data partition etc but the partition map/table has tons of errors and I believe this is the cause of the problem – the data is there but the computer can't access it due to a corrupt partition map.
Here's what I get in terminal when looking at the drive info:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *256.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Internal HD 255.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk2
1: Apple_partition_map 32.3 KB disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS General DATA 500.0 GB disk2s3
And the second part for the drive in question:
$ diskutil info /dev/disk2s3
Device Identifier: disk2s3
Device Node: /dev/disk2s3
Part of Whole: disk2
Device / Media Name: Apple_HFS_Untitled_1
Volume Name: General DATA
Escaped with Unicode: General%FF%FE%20%00DATA
Mounted: No
File System Personality: HFS+
Type (Bundle): hfs
Name (User Visible): Mac OS Extended
Journal: Unknown (not mounted)
Owners: Disabled
Partition Type: Apple_HFS
OS Can Be Installed: No
Media Type: Generic
Protocol: FireWire
SMART Status: Not Supported
Volume UUID: 88071423-C35F-3BAA-BEE6-E3A3B3D9948F
Total Size: 500.0 GB (499973603328 Bytes) (exactly 976510944 512-Byte-Units)
Volume Free Space: 0 B (0 Bytes) (exactly 0 512-Byte-Units)
Device Block Size: 512 Bytes
Read-Only Media: No
Read-Only Volume: Not applicable (not mounted)
Ejectable: Yes
Whole: No
Internal: No
Can anyone help with advice on how to rebuild the apple partition map? I think this can be done with testdisk but I can't seem to fumble my way to the correct answer? by the way, I need to access the data on the drive, not just reformat and repurpose the hardware.
Help!
Best Answer
Seems like you need the following: Fixing my external hard drive's partition map
The fact that it's external shouldn't make a difference to you.
What happens when you try to mount it?
eg.
The error you get should point you to your problem.