UltraMax 650GB I disconnected the drive from a Mac Mini (running OSX), and the drive stopped responding. The blue light is just flickering and its not responding to anything. Reseting the device isn't working (holding the power button down for 20 seconds), and even when I remove the power cable, it does the same thing when I plug it back in. The drive is fully loaded, and I really need solution. HEEEEELP.

When have you bought you mbp ?
Your External HDD is in which format, Do you have an app like NTFS for mac osx, or Tuxera NTFS on your MBP if your HDD is not formated as MAC OSX drive. .....

You have to prepare the hard drive first in Disk Utility. Format it to accept an OSX install.

Maybe the detection circuit for the diagnostic lights is faulty, if the disk utility found no issues I would continue using the hardware.

I have the same problem too, this iomega is terrible, I have it only less than two months and it is not working already. Evan it has one year warranty I will not suggest anyone to buy it in the future.

Hi,

First let me let out a LMAO to there website. Although the Windows and Mac operating systems are still somewhat different in how they work, the computer you're running OSX on IS a standard "IBM-Clone" or PC and therefore and potential hardware issues are identical regardless of wether it is running Mac or Windows.

The Blue light blinking generally means one of only two things, one the hard drive is active and currently reading or writing files, or two, it has a hardware problem. The fact the light is on usually means you have a good power supply but there are numerous other problems that could cause this.

If you just bought the drive and haven't got any data that is only on this drive, take it back to the store you bought it at and ask to have it replaced as a faulty drive. If you do have any crucial data on the drive already, respond back and I will be happy to offer advice on how to retrieve it.


Chris

Try unplug bamboo tablet,repair permissions, intall newest driver from web page , run repair permissions again and plug bamboo, it should be it.

does it boot up at all if the osx is starting then it is, have u run out of space try getting external drive even dongle 8gb and tell itune to save to this see if thats the problenm the harddrives arnt big on those

actionman

Shut your computer down. Disconnect you external hardrive. Power up your computer again. Power up the Verbatim and then connect to a USB port. You should hear a very quiet 'ping'.

Go to My Computer, and the Verbatim should be showing as one of your drives (probably Drive D). You should be able to open it from there.

Make sure that you have a Desk Top Icon for opening the hardrive, it makes it so much easier. Hope this helps

plug it in all the way thats how i did it

have you had this drive long if new then go to the control pannel on the mac and find the Amiistrative Tools open then computer managment open then Disk Mangement then open and find the unallcated drive then properties then partition format partition then go to nxt step then follow till end excepting all defaults as hdd is formated for pc not mac so id is needed to be reconised on mac. close all windows then in my computer you should now see hard drive letter if not turn off drive then return on.