Western external hard drive suddenly not recognized anymore on Mac please help.?

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jaskaran j

So my mac isn't picking up my western external 3TB hard drive anymore...
my OS is OS X 10.8.4
the hard drive is formatted to exFAT
it's not detected in disk utility either???

issue:
The light still turns on even when the USB isn't connected to the mac
the light doesn't blink...
the hard drive still makes noise as if data is being read or written

Answer
Two possibilities, both are failures:
1) The disk itself had died, and is simply trying re-seeks (clicking sounds)
2) The interface has died for some reason, but the disk is still good. Buying another external disk case and moving the drive over to it should allow a good drive to still run (and read old data)

external hard drive. mac and pc. 1tb or more.?

H20polo

i need a 1tb or larger external hard drive that is compadible with mac and PC can anyone sugest a good one?? im planning on filling it with music only. thanks

Answer
You have a problem...You can't have the same hard drive with Windows and MAC at the same time, Windows can't ready MAC and vice versa.

Here the solution:

A) You buy 1 extrernal HDD 1TB or more and cut it in half 500GB/500GB(partition)
This is if you can't or don't want to buy 2 HDDs.

B) Buy 2 external HDDs 1TB or more and use the one for Windows and the other for MAC.

Suggestions for HDD:
--WESTERN DIGITAL WDBABP0010HCH-EESN MY BOOK 3.0 1TB + USB 3.0 HBA ADAPTER
It has USB2.0 and 3.0 Pre formatted for Windows

--WESTERN DIGITAL WDBAAK0010HCH-EESN MY BOOK 3.0 1TB WESTERN DIGITAL WDBAAU0010HBK-EESN ELEMENTS DEKSTOP 1TB Pre formatted for Windows

--WESTERN DIGITAL WDBAAU0010HBK-EESN ELEMENTS DEKSTOP 1TB Pre formatted for Windows

--WESTERN DIGITAL WDBABP0020HCH MY BOOK 3.0 2TB + USB 3.0 HBA ADAPTER Pre formatted for Windows

--WESTERN DIGITAL WDH2NC20000E MY BOOK WORLD EDITION II 2TB Pre formatted for MAC

--WESTERN DIGITAL WDH2NC40000E MY BOOK WORLD EDITION II 4TB Pre formatted for MAC

--WESTERN DIGITAL WDBACG0030HCH MY BOOK LIVE 3TB Pre formatted for Windows

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