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WD MY PASSPORT MAC NOT SHOWING UP HOW TO
Any ideas how to see my back ups on this and maybe save them elsewhere. The light on the unit is flashing but thats about it. people that assume a non-working HD is a "bad" HD when in fact the HD is just 100% fine, its just that miserable little circuit card. Plugged in my WD My passport today and its not showing up on my Mac like it normally does. If a HD is over 3 months old (most all "bad" HD fail usually before the 3 month mark) and LESS THAN 5 years old and treated very well. people that assume a non-working HD is a "bad" HD when in fact the HD is just 100% fine, its just that miserable little circuit card. You have 2 options, offload all data onto another HD that will work on that one Mac, OR crack open the HD case and remove the HD itself and put into another enclosure ($10-15$ ebay).Ī SATA card is about the size of a stick of gum, its plugged into the HD with a female USB connection on the other side, it unplugs in 1/2 a second from the HD once you get into the HD casing.
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This is why some of us HD 'collectors' call this the "haunted HD syndrome" ?, where a HD acts utterly illogical and contrary to common sense diagnostics (works fine on ONE Mac but not another) It makes very little logical sense to most (for obvious reasons), but that that one Mac is no longer able to communicate with said HD due to the SATA card. The case being, your other Macs will read/ write to this HD fine, but this one Mac wont.
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(and you swapped out HD USB cables too on the "bad" HD?).Īfter swapping cables between the "2 identical WD USB HD", you have (nearly 100% certainty) a bad SATA card as I stated much earlier.