I then took it to Best Buy- And they informed it that the hard drive was trash- That her machine would not even get it to power up at all. I then hooked it into another computer where I have a second hard drive- Took mine out and put this one in its place since I know that I am able to access my second hard drive on this computer- It simply didnt show up. I went into BIOS and did see a removable disk, but if I set it as boot priority, obviously it would not work- I do not know if there was something else I should have done to get it to work in BIOS. I put it in my computer hooked up to a SATA drive- It did not show up in Disk management or under my computer. I read about taking the hard drive out of the casing (yes I realize it voids any warranty but at this point I am more concerned with my data than getting any sort of a replacement) so I carefully removed it. First think I did was try a new USB cord, which changed nothing- I also have tried it on three different computers- Nothing.
When I would power it off or on or reset it it would attempt to load, but the blue light would constantly blink.
I am just desperate to recover my files without having to pay someone $300 to try to do it for me.Ī few weeks ago, my computer simply stopped recognizing it was there. but I would not consider myself a beginner. Please keep in mind I am not an expert by any means and do not have a lot of experience with these types of things other than simple computer installs ect. Almost every peripheral for the Mac is simply plug it in and go.My house was hit by lightening a few years ago and it fried my computers- so I very quickly went out and bought a WD 500g mybook external hard drive which I have everything stored on. That’s one of the reasons I prefer Mac over Pc. Then I’ll find a 500 GB external HD specifcally for Mac so I don’t have to go through all that reformatting and setting up. That with the simplified quick guide would easily lead one to think that all one had to do was plug it in and connect it. The box said it was PC and Mac compatible. I just wanted a HD I could connect to my Mac and be able to use it at once without any kind of formatting. If it had to be reformatted for the Mac there should have been some kind of warning or notice with the quick guide. It was only after I got it all screwed up that I looked at the written instructions. Of course all of this was in icons, no text. I did not reformat it before attempting to use it on my Mac because the quick setup guide that came with it only said to plug in the power, plug in the USB, and then you see the Main Menu of the WD SmartWare.
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