HDD GURU FORUMS

I recently used 'iPartition' by Coriolis Systems to expand a partition to take up so,e free space on my Seagate Freeagent Goflex 1 TB, iPartition version 3.4.0.

The first step when I hit 'Go' was 'Unmoumting Disks'. It stayed there for almost an hour at 0%, so I forcequit iPartition and unplugged the drive. (Dumb, I know)

I plugged it back in and various other disk utilities reported catastrophic failures, disk didn't mount in Finder or even show up in Disk Utility. I reopened iPartition and it said

'iPartition detected an unfinished operation on this disk'

And it asked me to click a button to 'Add a repair operation', which I did. It has been almost 8 hours since then, and it is still stuck on 'Unmounting Disks' at 0%.

What should I do? I already tried their incredibly unhelpful customer support. Should I wait, or force quit again and use a data recovery tool? The drive contains critical data and irreplaceable family photos. (I know, I should have a backup). Please help!

so your on a imac

use a program called disk warrior 4 that will recovery your files for you.
but first get the drive going

it looks like you might have damaged the external case

remove the hard drive and put it in another case

after doing that load up ipartition select the drive and it should find it
and then carry on.