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The red light is staying on on my Acomdata 1TB Puredrive USB Esata 1 TB Hard Drive and the computer will not recognize it.

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  • gods_rap Mar 04, 2009

    I've used it many times in the past. I have about 20 gigs of music on it.

  • Anonymous Mar 31, 2009

    i have the same problem and dont know how to fix it

  • Anonymous Apr 04, 2009

    On mine the red light is stuck and a few seconds after I turn it on it begins to make a malignant sound, like a bomb about to explode...seriously. Computer doesn't detect any trace of the drive nor my entrapped data.

    WTF, the website seems fishy to me anyways since I cant find a single way to actually call and talk to a real live human tech rep except for their office somewhere in Ontario, CA.

    Once again WTF?

  • Anonymous May 11, 2010

    Is this a new drive or have you used it before?

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I have this happen when the connection is not fully inserted. Mine fits badly so I use rubber bands to hold it in. I wonder if this is how it was designed to be, since both my eSATA AcomData drives are like this.

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I would say take the drive out and if you have SATA connectors on your motherboard, connect it directly to you computer and see if the computer will recognize it.  If it does, your enclosure is bad.

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