See Using Time Machine with an Airport Extreme Air Disk. Will allow me to quickly go to Devices -> USB -> HDD (and I can see my mounted external HDD vanish from the Mac Desktop) while the Acronis CD. Were you aware that backing-up to a USB drive on an Airport Extreme is not supported by Apple? They don't mention that in their marketing. I did what I was supposed to by backing and got totally burned. I must say this doesn't look promising and I'm pretty frustrated.

If you can, you may be able to recover some data, one way or another. You might want to check with the makers.Īny other ideas on repairing the sparse? Or how to access the files that are in it?Ĭan you mount the sparse bundle (by double-clicking it via the Finder)? That may take a moment or two, but if so, the Time Machine Backups disk image inside it will appear in the Finder sidebar and/or desktop. And most of the modern digital drive is formatted with exFAT. If the drive doesn't have a drive letter next to the name, right-click the volume and select the Change Drive Letter and Paths option.

However, I don't think it (or any of the others) can fix a sparse bundle disk image. Acronis True Image WD edition does not support exFAT file system, so Acronis won’t recognize it and you cannot use hard drive formatted as ExFAT as target drive. The 'gold standard' seems to be DiskWarrior, but it's about $100 and there's no guarantee it can actually fix it. Ordinarily, I'd say one of the 3rd-party heavy-duty Disk Repair apps might be able to fix it.