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My external hard drive not working.

My external hard drive is not working in my MacBook Air. What can I do?

Posted on May 19, 2012 2:13 AM

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May 21, 2012 11:43 AM in response to LSE2013

Some more information would help.

  • What type of device are you using and what is the connection?
  • What do you see in the Disk Utility application in the Utilities folder?
  • How is the drive being powered? The MBA is not able to supply a lot of power on it's USB ports. You might try a split USB cable with the short side plugged into a USB power brick (such as powers the iPad).

My external hard drive not working.

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