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Q: External Hard Drive spontaneously ejecting after upgrade to Snow Leopard

I have a small pocket sized Western Digital hard drive that has always worked fine, until after Snow Leopard upgrade. Now, if I walk away from the computer for a bit, and then the screen saver kicks in, when I re-enter my admin password to get back to work the external drive has always been spontaneously ejected (I get a warning on the screen that it was ejected without warning). I didn't unplug it but the OS seems to treat it as though it has been yanked out without warning.

Anyone else experiencing this spontaneous ejection or have a solution?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Sep 1, 2009 2:10 PM

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Q: External Hard Drive spontaneously ejecting after upgrade to Snow Leopard

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  • by brandyysnapp,

    brandyysnapp brandyysnapp Mar 5, 2014 5:42 PM in response to aluth23
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    Mar 5, 2014 5:42 PM in response to aluth23

    Since I wanted a new iPad mini2, I had to finally upgrade my Mac Mini from OSX 10.5.8 to now 10.6.8 (okay, a wee bit behind).  All went well until I noticed that my external drive that I use for Time Machine backups kept spontaneously ejecting itself. After much Google research, I tried your simple Spotlight fix. Well lo and behold, it worked!!! (24 hours and staying) I figured it had to be something silly and simple, and it was! To think of all the complicated things people have been trying over the past five years and that Apple didn't have an answer....boggles the mind.

    Thanks Aluth23!

  • by brandyysnapp,

    brandyysnapp brandyysnapp Mar 8, 2014 1:54 AM in response to brandyysnapp
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    Mar 8, 2014 1:54 AM in response to brandyysnapp

    Update:

    External Drive has remained stable!

    Not a single spontaneous ejection.  :)

  • by charliefromelgin,

    charliefromelgin charliefromelgin Mar 24, 2014 3:45 PM in response to aluth23
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    Mar 24, 2014 3:45 PM in response to aluth23

    just trying this now as I have the same problems

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