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So earlier today I was trying to play an episode of Top Gear from my External Harddrive. When I tried to play the icon for the Harddrive disappeared an the warning "This device was removed improperly please blah blah blah" came up.
The problem is, I didn't remove the harddrive, and now no computer will acknowledge it. When I plug it into a harddrive it still starts up and acts like it's connected, but the computer just won't acknowledge it's plugged in.
I tried two different computers, two different USB cords, and a firewire cord, and all had the same results.
It's a 320 GB Western Digital Harddrive and I'm connecting it to my iMac.
Honestly, it sounds like your HD took a ****. When you turn power on to the hard drive, can you hear the discs spin then stop or do you hear clicking? If you hear either one, I hope you didn't have anything important on that drive. My WD external drive did this to me last week.........yeah it sucks.
Open "Disk Utility" and see if it recognizes it. If it shows it and it's greyed out, you can remount it. If it won't remount, you can reformat. If it doesn't see it at all, either the drive took a dump or the drive enclosure is shot. I've had a lot of Lacie externals at work and they constantly die.
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Thanks for the input Zin, but uh, I don't take advice from people that play Forza.... Just kidding
Yeah luckily I don't have anything irreplaceable on the drive, just every episode of Top Gear I downloaded. But the reason thats all I have is because the same drive crashed like 2 months ago and I lost everything. I should have learned my lesson that time.
So treefiddy, I went to disk utility and ran first aid or whatever and it said the disk is fine, but then when I tried to mount it it would just say "Disk can't be mounted, run first aid and try again" or something to that effect. After I tried it like three times I felt like I was playing with the idiot card and stopped.
If I have to reformat it again I might as well just buy a new drive right? twice in two months is just a little too many crashes for me.
I lost a WD firewire drive this same way. Every now and then the Mac would lose it. I would fiddle with it, plugging, unplugging, etc. Finally it died and there was no reviving it.
Thanks for the input Zin, but uh, I don't take advice from people that play Forza.... Just kidding
Yeah luckily I don't have anything irreplaceable on the drive, just every episode of Top Gear I downloaded. But the reason thats all I have is because the same drive crashed like 2 months ago and I lost everything. I should have learned my lesson that time.
So treefiddy, I went to disk utility and ran first aid or whatever and it said the disk is fine, but then when I tried to mount it it would just say "Disk can't be mounted, run first aid and try again" or something to that effect. After I tried it like three times I felt like I was playing with the idiot card and stopped.
If I have to reformat it again I might as well just buy a new drive right? twice in two months is just a little too many crashes for me.
TechTool might be able to recover the drive. The Mac Disk Utility has always been a relatively basic fixer. I used to run it in OS 9 and it wouldn't find anything, but when I ran Norton Utilities, NU would find a bunch of problems. A lot of times, the volume header was screwed up, which would definitely be enough to keep the drive from mounting. You might also try creating another user on your computer and reboot into that user and see if the drive mounts just in case the system is holding some bogus info.
I'd also steer clear from buying Western Digital drives. I've not had much luck with them either. Seagate are usually pretty good drives.
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Thanks again Tree, I'll try some more stuff out and see what happens but either way I'll probably just get another drive anyways. I'm starting to shoot a lot of stuff I can't really afford to lose
Thanks for the input Zin, but uh, I don't take advice from people that play Forza.... Just kidding
Yeah luckily I don't have anything irreplaceable on the drive, just every episode of Top Gear I downloaded. But the reason thats all I have is because the same drive crashed like 2 months ago and I lost everything. I should have learned my lesson that time.
So treefiddy, I went to disk utility and ran first aid or whatever and it said the disk is fine, but then when I tried to mount it it would just say "Disk can't be mounted, run first aid and try again" or something to that effect. After I tried it like three times I felt like I was playing with the idiot card and stopped.
If I have to reformat it again I might as well just buy a new drive right? twice in two months is just a little too many crashes for me.
Could be the external hard drive circuit board. Remove it from the external shell and hook it up internally and see if it detects. You tried it on 2 different macs? Have you tried it on a PC just to see if it detects?
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