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Problems with iomega External Hard Drive on MacBook Air

Hi community!

I'm experiencing some problems with my MacBook Air and an external hard drive and I'm wondering if anybody would be able to help me out.


I own a MacBook Air running Mac OS X 10.7.3. When I connect my iomega 500GB external hard drive, the Finder is able to pick it up, but when I click on the drive name, it spins forever without the Finder responding for a long time (it basically crashes the Finder with a spinning ball staying forever). The light on the external hard drive flashes intermittently when I first plug it in, but after that stays constantly lit. So I guess the disk has power, but something else is wrong with it.


It was working fine earlier today but I accidentally pulled the cable out while the disk was working. I'm hoping this hasn't permanently damaged my drive.


Any help on what I could do to fix this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!


SV

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Apr 10, 2012 6:57 AM

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Posted on Apr 10, 2012 8:27 AM

You might try launching Disk Utility, and then select the drive in question to run a "Verify disk" on the drive. This may indicate any errors in the file system of the drive that might be preventing the successful reading of the disk.


If the disk is empty, you may want to re-partition and reformat, so as to start with a "clean slate".

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User profile for user: SP Forsythe
SP Forsythe
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Apr 10, 2012 8:27 AM in response to sriramv

You might try launching Disk Utility, and then select the drive in question to run a "Verify disk" on the drive. This may indicate any errors in the file system of the drive that might be preventing the successful reading of the disk.


If the disk is empty, you may want to re-partition and reformat, so as to start with a "clean slate".

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Apr 10, 2012 8:28 AM in response to sriramv

I had a similar issue with my G-Tech 500MB Slim Drive. It wasn't mounting and I was having access issues. Turns out I had to reformat the drive using Disk Utility. After that reformatting, the drive has worked perfectly.


You may want to check the Iomega support page first before reformatting the drive, so you do it correctly.

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Problems with iomega External Hard Drive on MacBook Air

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