What in the world is up with the FreeAgent Desk Seagate Drive? It seems that the external HD has some files or software in there that messes things up when wanting to format the drive for Mac OS extended (journaled). Bizzarro. Here's a tiny time line of my day with sprinkles of troubleshooting along the way.
10 am Up, exhausted (I know LATE, but the mighty Hunter decided to nurse basically throughout the night....non stop almost....I know)
10:30-11:30 am Breakfast for Hunter and I. Hunter clean up.
11:30-12:30 Erica, our lovely babysitter came over to watch Hunter while I interviewed Michael Londra. Was able to read comments and tweets regarding my rant yesterday.
1 pm- 2:30 pm Hunter fell asleep!!!! At this time, I got a chance to email Victor Cajiao and Dave Nanian from SuperDuper. I also got on the phone with a new journalist/documentary producer that I'm going to be working with and had to meet today. Finally was able to get into SuperDuper and begin to see that the trouble was all about the HD. The fabulous Victor called me and he talked me through what needed to be done. Right as I was about to attempt to do what Victor told me to do, Hunter woke up.
2:30-3:30 pm Had to get Hunter and myself ready to go out in the mid forties windy weather to meet with journalist at the Co-op, and walked to the Co-op.
3:30-5:30 pm Meeting at the Co-op + Lunch
5:30-6:30 pm Was finally able to focus a bit on the formating issue at hand as Hunter's Daddy had gotten her some new Elmo DVD's and I put one on as I dove into disk utility. I found that there were still troubles and decided to call Victor to speak with him. We had a productive conversation solving the problem.
6:30 pm Finally backed up with SuperDuper!
What was the problem: After partitioning the ext HD, only one partition formatted properly, the other one was unable to be verified or repaired:
I ended up having to erase the entire drive and repartion again. The second time the first partition formatted properly to for Mac OS extended (journaled) but the second one 'refused'. It would only accept being formatted as a FAT32.
What solved the problem? I erased the drive again and this time partitioned it into 3 partitions. I made the 3rd partition as small as I could make it. For whatever reason this solved the problem. So now I have 3 partitions....Not exactly what I wanted but am just happy that I was able to back up, back up and back up!
I'm still not sure what in the world was going on. It just makes me wanna back up on the cloud...I just didn't want to keep spending more money!
