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APPLE MAC BACKUP HARD DRIVE BLINKING YELLOW LIGHT DRIVERS
APPLE MAC BACKUP HARD DRIVE BLINKING YELLOW LIGHT DRIVER
APPLE MAC BACKUP HARD DRIVE BLINKING YELLOW LIGHT WINDOWS

Thinking it's a lost cause, but hoping someone on here can help me fix it. Oh it also makes a little clicking noise every now and then (awesome I know). The HDD is not showing up in Computer Management.

APPLE MAC BACKUP HARD DRIVE BLINKING YELLOW LIGHT DRIVERS

Have gone onto WDs website and downloaded the drivers from there and done the above step but browsed to that file instead of a random search.

APPLE MAC BACKUP HARD DRIVE BLINKING YELLOW LIGHT DRIVER

The driver wizard thing says the installation cannot be completed (cannot find the right stuff to install), as it searches for 'unknown' instead of 'My Passport' etc. Have tried deleting it from device manager and reinstalling it.

It is flashing like its in use (again still not showing anywhere).Ĭan see it in Device Manager and Disabled and Enabled it after the message (device cannot be started) and now it reads that 'the device is working properly', which of course it's not. For a short time it popped up in My Computer but was very very slow at accessing it (realise its probs corrupted).īut now I have nothing. Have run Dskchk a number of times, sometimes it would say its in use and asked if i wanted to run it as startup (which I did do). Plugged it back into my Comp and nothing came up (normally AutoPlay detects it immediately). Plugged it into our DVD player to watch movies and it didn't show up as anything connected. I unplugged it without 'removing it safely' (yes I know this is probably where the trouble it) and now I can't find anything. Use it mainly for movies, was copying a file to it and it froze. Have a WD My Passport 1TB and all was working fine.

Sorry to be stealing the post, just hoping like minds can help me Its worth a try, as often the culprit is actually the control chip on the bridge board from sata to usb has broke.Īnd will give you access to the drive to read its contents ect. Your not going to know till you open the external drive case. If so the bridge board can be taken out once again and the drive can be fitted to a tower based system providing you have sata ports and power cables to drive the 2.5' drive. While some external hard drives use a standard sata 2.5' drive with a bridge board from sata to usb. Now it depends on the make, some come with a usb connector fitted to the Hard drive circuit board. The second type of drive in an external housing is of a 2.5' HD size, the ones found in a laptop. So to get it working, or test it remove bridge board and connect to the sata mobo and power feeds if using it with a tower based system.

APPLE MAC BACKUP HARD DRIVE BLINKING YELLOW LIGHT WINDOWS

Now if this fails then its why the drive is not picked up by windows or is not accessed. The board created a bridge between two interfaces IE sata to a usb connector on the external housing. It is used to provide power to the internal HD and also Data connection. There is a board inside the external drive case that contains what we call a bridge board. Right, There are two types of external drives.Ī large external drive that requires its own 12v power supply contains in most cases a 3.5' Sata drive that can be fitted into any computer case providing it has sata connections on your motherboard.

Apple mac backup hard drive blinking yellow light