Having had hair-pulling troubles with every brand of "name-brand" external drive that goes on sale every weekend, I now buy external drives only from Other World Computing. (US$100-150): Dump the flaky WD enclosure entirely and get a known good external unit. It has it own dedicated power supply (power "brick") and thus provides power the computer cannot (example: Sabrent HB-MC7B Premium 7-port Aluminum USB 3.0 Hub. It gets power from two USB ports that can help.ģ) Medium cost (under about US$40): Get a POWERED USB hub. Get a "Y" USB cable (example: 1.0 Meter (39") USB 2.0 A to USB 2.0 Mini B 5-Pin Cable - Auxiliary USB "Y" Power Design ).
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There is strong evidence in reports here that dumping the Windows formatting helps with the drive being recognized reliably.Ģ) Low cost: (under US$10) if you have two free USB ports. Disk Utility will make it look just like your computer sees its internal drive. The drives come formatted for Windows or, if a "Mac Edition," often have an odd proprietary WD formatting scheme. Use Disk Utility to erase and reformat the drive as Macintosh Extended (HFS+) Journaled. There are four possible actions that can help ranging from free to expensive:ġ) Free (if you do not need to share the drive with a Windows computer, and have a way to back up date already on the drive). Sometimes with age the drive starts to demand more power than the computer can supply.
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They have to get all their power from the computer's USB ports.
Passport drives show up in a lot of problems reports here, as do many "bus-powered" USB drives.
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