My verbatim 250gb hard drive is not recognized.?

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ajjacko200

I have had my Hard drive for about a year now and now it is not being recognized. when i plug it in the light blinks instead of being steady. the internal fan for the drive does not kick in. there are no sound effects on the pc when it is plugged in or unplugged. It is like it was never plugged in when it actually is. How can i correct this without formatting it and losing my data?
It is plugged into my desktop.

Answer
Okay my first response question is. Does this Portable HDD come with a Power Supply?
If it does not then the issue is simply that. It gets it's power supply through the USB cable and since this is a portable hdd I am assuming you have a laptop. The laptop in order to read the drive needs to have a Powered USB Port. It is just not getting enough power from the USB port it is connected to.
The tech specs even say that it needs to be powered through the USB.

Tech Specs
Rotational Speed - 5400 RPM

External Power - USB bus-powered <----------------------------------- Right There!

Interface - One USB Mini-B port

Data Transfer Rate - USB 2.0 High-Speed: 480
Mb/s (max), USB 1.1 Full Speed: 12 Mb/s

Unit Dimensions - 3.38 in. X 5.38 in. X 0.63 in. (86 mm X 137 mm X 16 mm)

Unit Weight - 5.2 oz (147 g)


System Requirements:

USB: 1.1 or 2.0 Port

Windows: 2000, XP or Vista

Mac: OS 9x, Mac OS X 10.1 or higher

Macbook Pro - How do you use an external hard drive?

Zach

Hi all, I just recently purchased a Macbook Pro.

Tech Spechs: 15 Inch, 2.66GHz, and 128 GB SSD.

I upgraded the hard drive from 500GB to 128GB. I know that's less space, but it has a solid state drive which I really wanted.

However, now I'm running out of room! I was going to purchase this: http://store.apple.com/us/product/H2068/G-Technology-500GB-G-DRIVE-FireWire-USB-Portable-Hard-Drive?mco=MTYzMzA4NDE

but I'm not 100% sure of what I can do with it. Could I just upload my iTunes and everything to it? Because my library is fairly big, and I need to install other programs on here, etc.

I was wondering if I can use the hard drive for Time Machine and additionally store files on it? I know that Time Machine basically backs everything up. So I want that on there, but I also want to be able to install programs on the hard drive. Like install Microsoft Office for Mac on the external, put my iTunes library on there, etc so it would only be on the computer if the external hard drive was connected. Can it do two things like that at once? Time Machine, and store non-backup files on it?

Answer
Bassman above is correct. and you do not need a Time Capsule to use time Machine just another hard drive. I currently have my itunes library split onto TWO external harddrives because I ran out of room years ago. It does work. Good Luck!

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