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won't recognize external hard drive after unsafe eject
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Maryland
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Bad habit from PCs - i NEVER remember to do a 'safe eject' before i unplug a jump drive or whatever from the mac. Well, i got a 500 gig external hard drive (mybook) for xmas and did this the first time i used it (rt after xmas), was afraid, then plugged it back in and it was ok. Then i did it yet again when I used it last night, and now when I plug it in, the lights are on on the external drive, but my computer does not seem to recognize it in any capacity. What can I do?!
sub-question: it came installed with memeo lifeAgent. Is this worth buying after the trial period, or should I just drag over my home folder when it's connected? If I drag over, will it replace the folder each time or make a new version of it?
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MacBook 2,1 - 13.3" - Snow Leopard (rawr)
2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo/SuperDrive/4GB RAM (Crucial)/
500GB Hard Drive (Seagate Momentus)/
500GB External HD (MyBook)
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Senior User
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Asia
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If it shows up in Disk utility, you can try disk first aide to repair the disk.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Maryland
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...and if it doesn't show up??
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MacBook 2,1 - 13.3" - Snow Leopard (rawr)
2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo/SuperDrive/4GB RAM (Crucial)/
500GB Hard Drive (Seagate Momentus)/
500GB External HD (MyBook)
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Madison, WI
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Try DiskWarrior. If it doesn't see the drive, your next best option is to remove it from the enclosure, put into another Mac, and try DiskWarrior again.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Maryland
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well, i took them both to work to see if anyone there had any suggestions and voila—it just worked. Don't know why, I'd restarted etc 5 or 6 times at home, but who knows. Hopefully when I plug it back in here (with a large sticky on the HD that says "EJECT!!"), it'll still be a-OK.
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MacBook 2,1 - 13.3" - Snow Leopard (rawr)
2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo/SuperDrive/4GB RAM (Crucial)/
500GB Hard Drive (Seagate Momentus)/
500GB External HD (MyBook)
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