My samsung G3 1.5TB external powered hard drive does not read on my pc. It is very strange has this hard drive reads on my friends pc. The other strange part is that my friend as the exact same hard drive as mine and his reads on my PC.I am able to see the drive on device management but not able to open. This same drive works on my PS3. Don't know what could be wrong....

When you put the hard drives into an USB hard drive adapter case you cannot boot up the laptops using the external USB hard drive unless the laptop's BIOS has the option to allow the USB device as a boot device.
You can plug the external USB hard drive into any PC/laptop to copy files from the USB hard drive to the PC/laptop.
The MAC cannot read or write to the external USB hard drive unless the hard drive had been formatted in FAT32. There is no way a MAC can read a NTFS formatted hard drive and it will want to format the hard drive.

Assuming you don't hear any activity it might be the power supply that has died. Check if it's under any warrant.. if not you can always rescue the hard drive by taking it out of the enclosure and plugging it into your PC. Odds are it's a SATA drive. Either way.. taking it out of the enclosure will rule out of it's the hard drive or the components. Good luck.

I have tested the LA40C530 Samsung with a 300GB external hard disk and it works well without any issue. My guess is that it should support 500GB as well. I have played video/music/pictures on my WD 300GB HDD.

Probably not the right answer for your problem. Mine is an external 1 TB Simple Drive. Mine wouldn't respond at all. I unplugged the power cable from the back of the hard drive and replugged it in and instantly it worked. I had tried rebooting the computer, plugging/unplugging over and over into the computer and that didn't work.

First of all ensure that the drive itself is not broken (it happens). Try reading it directly, on another computer, then by attaching it to an external powered USB hub which should supply more power than an ordinary USB port.
You can use a tool such as Paragon Partition Explorer to verify that the disk is indeed readable, albeit possibly damaged at a logical, not hardware, level.

As a last resort you may try extracting the hard drive from the Pininfarina enclosure and connect it to an EIDE or SATA interface, as appropriate, on a motherboard. This is best done by a computer knowledgeable person.

If the drive isn't "seen" in any way or makes whirry or clickety noises, it is likely damaged and requires expert maintenance or a data recovery service.

If the hard drive was formatted on the MAC then the hard drive need to be reformatted using the Windows. If you format as a primary drive in FAT32 then the MAC can read and download files on this external drive so that a Windows PC or laptop can read. These files can be exchanged between MACs and PCs.

Does the external drive work when connected to some _other_ computer? (Friend? Office? Home?)

It could be a failure either in the "hardware" inside the external-case (the USB adapter & interface)
or in the disk-drive "inside" the external-case.

So, a qualified technician can open the external drive, remove the disk-drive, and connect it directly to a computer, to see if the files can be "directly" read from the disk-drive.

If not, then you should search online for a "data recovery" service -- they are expensive, but they physically repair a damaged disk-drive, just long-enough to copy your data to another disk-drive.

It is exactly right... YOU are not 'in control' of the hard drive and your buddy's computer doesnt have the 'permissions' to work with YOUR files...

It MAY be possible to get the okay if he logs into his computer as the administrator.... it is NOT an actual 'hardware' issue... being able to see the files says that... XP and vista are 'close enuf' design-wise that drive compatability isnt it either...

If your friend can log in as 'administrator' he will likely be able to take 'ownership' of the files on your 'external' drive and get what you need!

simple just format it for PC first then it should work for both

if you format it for MAC first it will not work on the PC

simple

PC are horrible for accessing files

mac's are more user friendly



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I have been using this hard disk for about 6 months now. It stopped working. The power and the usb cable are connected. I use Windows Xp and it doesnt read it. And for some reason most of the time when i open 'my computer' and the hard disk usb cable is plugged in 'my computer' stops responding !! However the 'safely remove disk' icon comes on the task bar and i can remove it from there. But i cant read it from explorer. The light on the HD keeps blinking. It reads my friends HD and flash drive. Please help me.