Hey folks,
I have and external hard drive that seems to be on the fritz lately. I tried to start up iTunes and my MacBook informed me that iTunes could not open because it was in already in use. I keep all my iTunes and media files on the external hard drive. So, I went to check out if any other programs were running, none were. I clicked on my external hard drive. I thought it may be a problem with iTunes, so I went to erase and format my external HD. I was told by disk utility that it couldnt complete the action because the external HD couldnt be unmounted and that it may be in use by another program. My folders appeared (iTunes, Music, and Videos) but when I clicked on them nothing was shown to be in the folders. The external HD is a 750 gb and when I click on the HD it tells me that i have 500 gb available (indicating that my files are still on the HD somewhere but for some reason won't open and are not visable to me) I have read where the files may be being "indexed"? I'm not really sure what that means, but I have I had the drive for about a year and it just started happening to me today. Any idea of what the issue with the HD is?
I have and external hard drive that seems to be on the fritz lately. I tried to start up iTunes and my MacBook informed me that iTunes could not open because it was in already in use. I keep all my iTunes and media files on the external hard drive. So, I went to check out if any other programs were running, none were. I clicked on my external hard drive. I thought it may be a problem with iTunes, so I went to erase and format my external HD. I was told by disk utility that it couldnt complete the action because the external HD couldnt be unmounted and that it may be in use by another program. My folders appeared (iTunes, Music, and Videos) but when I clicked on them nothing was shown to be in the folders. The external HD is a 750 gb and when I click on the HD it tells me that i have 500 gb available (indicating that my files are still on the HD somewhere but for some reason won't open and are not visable to me) I have read where the files may be being "indexed"? I'm not really sure what that means, but I have I had the drive for about a year and it just started happening to me today. Any idea of what the issue with the HD is?