OS X :: External MyBook HD Does Not Mount

Mar 31, 2010

Tore open my WD MyBook to replace the internal disk, and after piecing it back together, it no longer mounts in Finder. Disk Utility is also blind to it-- in fact the only thing that will see it at all is System Profiler.

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Dec 5, 2009

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Do I have a borked installation of 10.7.4? Would a simple re-install fix the problem? It seems highly unlikely to me that the drive just happened to silently die in the interim between its last use and the 10.7.4 install... What's going on?

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Mar 22, 2009

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Mar 16, 2012

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Nov 13, 2008

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Mar 25, 2008

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Jan 3, 2009

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Oct 10, 2010

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Nov 1, 2009

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Mar 21, 2012

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Mar 24, 2012

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Info:
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Jun 20, 2012

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Info:
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Jul 5, 2012

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I wonder why? My console shows fallowing error,p.s: already did SMC and PRAM, still doesn't work. 

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Dec 29, 2008

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May 25, 2009

I'm having a problem with my external RAID that I use between my G4 Laptop (10.5.x) and G4 tower (10.4.x). I downgraded the G4 laptop to 10.4.x so I can run Classic (kids educational software), and gain some speed. I backed everything up to my external RAID (two HD's RAID together). The downgrade install onto the laptop went perfectly. I went to restore some files from the RAID backup, and I got this error when trying to mount the external RAID: "the disk you inserted is not readable by this computer".

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Aug 17, 2009

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Sep 12, 2009

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Oct 5, 2009

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Mar 12, 2010

I just took the hard drive out of my old ibook g4 and put it in a case to use an external.

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Sep 17, 2008

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Jan 4, 2009

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I bought a 320 gb portable hard drive. It is not recongized either through the hub or directly into either USB 2.0 ports.

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Mar 20, 2009

external harddrive (Seagate brand). I've bought DiskWarrior (the latest

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Mar 31, 2012

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May 17, 2012

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May 21, 2012

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