I have a Western Digital MyPassport 1TB external hard drive, that’s less than 1 year old. I’m using a MacBook Pro with OSX 10.6.7.
Today, my time machine backups started failing on the device, and eventually I lost access to backups (as well as my music and photos on another partition).
When I attempt to run a Disk Utility repair, this occurs:
Verify and Repair volume “Backup”
Error: Could not unmount disk
Verify and Repair volume “Storage”
Error: Could not unmount disk
If I try to unmount from Finder, I receive this message:
The disk “Storage” wasn’t ejected because one or more programs may be using it.
To eject the disk immediately, click the Force Eject button.
I have made sure no files are in use, yet I still receive this message when I never have before.
Also, if I attempt to run another repair through Disk Utility once the partitions are unmounted, I see this:
Verify and Repair volume “disk1s1”
Volume repair complete.Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required. Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
Verify and Repair volume “disk1s2”
Volume repair complete.Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required. Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
I am at a loss for what to do here, and any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thank you!