My Toshiba px1394u-3g50 external hard drive is not working, light flashing and not recognised

I've switched on my external hard drive and noticed it was not recognised by my laptop. when I looked at the external drive I noticed the LED light is blinking instead of remaining blue... HELP!

Anonymous Jan 17, 2012

I have tried on another laptop and the same is happening, I have another external drive exactly the same connected to my tv downstairs and I have tried that on this laptop with no problems. also when I try faulty drive on the set up downstairs I get the same result.
Anonymous Mar 20, 2013

Hi I am having the same problem. Did you ever find a solution? I have connected it to two laptops via all the USB ports and tried two different cables and none of these have worked. Thanks

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Try connecting the hard drive to some other laptop and see if its getting recognized. Issue could be either with the hard drive itself of it could be with the usb port which you are using to connect the hard drive to your laptop.

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