Kraken Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 It all started when I tried resizing my OS X partition with GParted. After I did that, I was unable to boot at all (it would hang at the BIOS). I figured I probably broke my bootloader so I tried installing a new one. That kinda worked, but it would take a really long time to boot. After I did that, my external USB hard drive wouldn't so much as be detected in the System Profiler. I decided to completely reinstall, so I did that and restored from my Time Machine backup. Now I have everything working again, but my USB drive still isn't getting detected in System Profiler or Disk Utility. Is this a problem with some broken .kext or something? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179548-usb-hard-drive-stopped-mounting/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bajabronco Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 I am having the same problem after my update from 10.5.6 to 10.5.8 - I am running a D805 with the voodoo kernel. USB disks only mount if they are plugged in during startup. I swapped back in my old seatbelt kext to stop the kernel panic when mounting disk images, and to try to get the USB stick to mount I attempted to swap in my old IOUSBfamily.kext, but it did not solve the problem. Are there any other kexts I should look to swap back to solve this problem? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179548-usb-hard-drive-stopped-mounting/#findComment-1224434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Like Seatbelt.kext, System.kext must match kernel version. A non-matching system.kext will cause problems with USB devices for some reason. So for example if you're running a 9.7.0 kernel on 10.5.8, you need seatbelt and system.kext from 10.5.7. You can use Pacifist to extract them from the official 10.5.7 combo or delta update. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179548-usb-hard-drive-stopped-mounting/#findComment-1224439 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bajabronco Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Thanks Beerkex'd, worked perfectly! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179548-usb-hard-drive-stopped-mounting/#findComment-1224528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Don't mention it, just give me your car.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179548-usb-hard-drive-stopped-mounting/#findComment-1224534 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kraken Posted August 13, 2009 Author Share Posted August 13, 2009 Like Seatbelt.kext, System.kext must match kernel version. A non-matching system.kext will cause problems with USB devices for some reason. So for example if you're running a 9.7.0 kernel on 10.5.8, you need seatbelt and system.kext from 10.5.7. You can use Pacifist to extract them from the official 10.5.7 combo or delta update. I opened the DMG in Pacifist, but I don't see any System.kext or seatbelt.kext. I looked in the 10.5.7 delta update and the 10.5.8 combo update. EDIT: Alright, I found the files (in Payload), but the ones in my Extensions folder are the same as the ones in the 10.5.8 update (9.8.0). I'm guessing that's not my problem then? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179548-usb-hard-drive-stopped-mounting/#findComment-1224590 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kraken Posted August 14, 2009 Author Share Posted August 14, 2009 Can anybody help? I have some important stuff on this hard drive that I kinda need to access. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179548-usb-hard-drive-stopped-mounting/#findComment-1226247 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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