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Q: Seagate external HD light blinking, not detected on mac, help!

         Hello all, I have purchased separately two Seagate external hard drives (one for mac,slim) (other just plain doesn't state for mac or not, (not slim) with in a year and half of each other, the cord for both kept ejecting on its own. its very sensitive, almost to sensitive, i cannot so much as type and it comes out disconnecting the disk from my computer. Therefore, my time machine doesn't fully backup, I don't know if it has ever fully backed up at all. Now on the newer Seagate I went to recover something from it and the light is blinking but its not being detected on my mac. I tried to plug it from my Mac Air to my Mac Pro, same thing.

         Then I tried the older Seagate, just my luck that too is blinking light, not being detected on my macs. Help!? is there a program I should download to fix this, are they corrupted disks now because they were so often disconnected improperly? every 3-5 minutes. Should I get a different cord for both, does anyone think if I try the disk not for mac on a windows, that it might work? Is anyone else having this annoying problem?

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), early 2014

Posted on Aug 16, 2015 10:35 AM

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Q: Seagate external HD light blinking, not detected on mac, help!

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  • by lllaass,

    lllaass lllaass Aug 16, 2015 10:38 AM in response to new2M@c
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    Aug 16, 2015 10:38 AM in response to new2M@c

    - Did you really want to post all the wingdings/special characters?

    - What shows under System Profiler under USB assuming USB connected device? If working it should list both the enclosure ship and the hard drive.

    - Does the disk work OK when connected to another device?

    - Does your Mac see other external HDs connected to the same port?

    - Does it show in Disk Utility?

  • by deprieto,

    deprieto deprieto May 11, 2016 6:07 PM in response to new2M@c
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    May 11, 2016 6:07 PM in response to new2M@c

    I had the very same problem, and it's very probable that your hard disk has died.

     

    I'm sorry.