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My work colleague has an external drive that he uses on his Mac. Now the drive will not read when he uses it on the Mac. The external drive lights up and you can hear hard drive spin up but it sounds slow.
Then he tried on 2 laptops and a Mac mini – no lights showed up
Then this morning I plugged it into my work pc and the drive was found the drivers installed but can not see the drive in my computer. Then I opened device manager – the drive is there and its shows as working properly.
The lead being used is an old style USB with 2 plugs for extra power – I am thinking it is this. I changed the lead for my tom tom lead with a single usb on it. The drive lights up but does not show up even in device manager so I am thinking maybe it needs another lead that has 2 usb ports for the extra power.
Also is there any software for the Mac to recover deleted file from the recycle bin like recover for the PC – as he transferred all data from the Mac to external and deleted it on the Mac. So if he can not recover the external hopefully he can get something back from the Mac
Any ideas please
Thanks for looking
Skinz
Then he tried on 2 laptops and a Mac mini – no lights showed up
Then this morning I plugged it into my work pc and the drive was found the drivers installed but can not see the drive in my computer. Then I opened device manager – the drive is there and its shows as working properly.
The lead being used is an old style USB with 2 plugs for extra power – I am thinking it is this. I changed the lead for my tom tom lead with a single usb on it. The drive lights up but does not show up even in device manager so I am thinking maybe it needs another lead that has 2 usb ports for the extra power.
Also is there any software for the Mac to recover deleted file from the recycle bin like recover for the PC – as he transferred all data from the Mac to external and deleted it on the Mac. So if he can not recover the external hopefully he can get something back from the Mac
Any ideas please
Thanks for looking
Skinz