Since there's nothing wrong with the hard drive, I'm not worried that something will happen to my data at the moment. Also, it works perfectly fine on a friend's macbook air with the same updates and everything. But as I said, a few months ago it started getting worse and you had to plug it in a couple times or restart the computer before it would connect. The hard drive works on first try in my windows, pops up immediately. I'm not 100% sure what it's formatted as since I was not the one who did it. When I got the mac I had it formatted to work with the mac, so it's not at it's full potential when connecting it to my windows computer. The hard drive has worked fine with the mac for 1.5 years. But I need to be able to access it from this computer, so any advice or tips are very welcome. I connect it with USB and can't plug it up to a power source since there's nowhere to plug it up.Īdditionally, it works for my other computer that's not a mac. I need access to my hard drive and my Macbook is driving me crazy. I can't find it anywhere in the computer and I don't know what to do. I have checked that all the boxes are clicked in the 'Show content' list. It won't pop up under the units tab to the left in the finder window, it won't pop up under USB in utilities, it won't pop up when I open 'About this mac' and the system rapport thing, nor under the Connected USB list.

The external hard drive makes a buzzing sound as usual but isn't blinking like it does when it's plugged into the computer and connected. Now, when I plug it in it won't pop ut at all. The last few times I used it and it actually worked it would disconnect itself without me even touching it or anything. It has always worked great with my macbook air, but for the past few months it has been harder to connect it (Had to plug it in a few times before it connected, sometimes I had to restart the computer a few times before it would work). So I have a 1TB external hard drive from Seagate.

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