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Here's an article on three popular disk tools in OS XĪny disk will have a chance to fail over time and external disks are (usually) given harsher conditions. Unfortunately a Verify/Repair under Disk Utility is not that thorough so it will not fully test the drive like you need. ( TechTool can do this but is expensive, Scannersz Lite is a After copying/recover the original files you may want to reformatĪnd test the original disk with something like a surface scan.Get a new disk to use as a new/second backup disk.

Alternatively recover the files under Linux if you

Try a utility like DiskWarrior to recover/rebuild the diskįilesystem.

ext2 under linux would be an alternative as there are some solutions to read/write this filesystem under Mac as well. If you primarily are just trying to use the files under Mac, then HFS+ (Journaled) is the best choice since it is more robust than something like exFAT. Finding a way to back them up somewhere else in order to be able to test the disk or relocate the files to a new backup disk should be the first priority. However, given that this is your "backup" drive I would be concerned that the disk has become unreliable and would seek a new backup repository (as you mentioned buying a new disk, this is a good idea.)Ĭan you recover the files under Linux? If so this may be a cheaper alternative to consider.

This could be an issue with corruption of the file system/directory structure on the disk.Ī utility like Disk Warrior may be able to help you resurrect the directory structure and recover the files.