2T My Book Essential used for Time Machine (OS 10.9.4 Mavericks) has become corrupted. Does not show in Finder but does show as mounted in Disk Utility, although the partition does not mount. Am trying to reformat to make disk useable again (don’t care about the data), but both Disk Utility and WD…

Update on this problem. I solved it by terminating the fsck_hfs process in Activity Monitor (click on it then hit “discontinue.” This released the drive, and allowed it to unmount. I was then able to reformat it using Disk Utility without a problem. Drive is now working in Time Machine as my bac…

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Skeemer_Man July 25, 2014, 8:58pm 4

Clicked the star, and accepted the solution. Over and out.

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