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May 8, 2016 1:39 PM in response to Flyfisher72by K Shaffer,Does the USB peripheral appear in the OS X Disk Utility? Sometimes you can
locate one from the utility and then see if you can make it mount or repair it.
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May 8, 2016 8:41 PM in response to K Shafferby Flyfisher72,Thanks for the response I appreciate your help. The disk doens't appear in Disk Utility on this computer or on an older mac pro that I have. I'm afraid that the disk is dead.
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May 9, 2016 1:26 AM in response to Flyfisher72by K Shaffer,Sometimes a component in the enclosure will fail, so the hard drive won't work.
However some of the hard drives have a part built into them, that fails and it is
like a USB ATA adapter; some users with several failed drives have been able
to take apart ones they've become familiar with, and cobble one together...
To experiment, sometimes you can take the hard drive out of an enclosure,
and get a 'universal USB drive adapter with power supply' to try & access it.
Something like: https://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/U3NVSPATA/
Here's something along the lines of what I'd previously mentioned:
Your dead external hard drive is likely fine! Great hope for your 'faulty' external HD
One could hope, anyway, and retrieve data from a failed drive one way or another.
To have more than one active backup is always a preferred method to archive or
store files; Time Machine is helpful if its archives are in duplicate elsewhere; so is
the use of fully boot-able system clones. In addition. And enclosures with their own
power supply that do not rely on port-power can be helpful to troubleshoot w/ clones.
The enclosures with correct chipset to boot OS X (as needed) is also a good idea.
A company OWC macsales.com online has a variety of enclosures, drives and parts.
With a history of being reputable, mac-centric, and fair guarantees for added value.
(You an ask questions or use info on their site, without being a customer, too.)
Well, it's getting near 12:30AM local time & I'm going offline...
Good luck in this matter!
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May 9, 2016 3:50 AM in response to Flyfisher72by OGELTHORPE,Have you tried all USB ports?
Have you tried different cables?
Have you tried it on another Mac?
Ciao.