My external hard drive now ejects itself from my iMac

hemispheres · hemispheres #1 (**permalink**)

01-18-2012, 07:39 PM

Recently my external hard drive (1 TB My Passport Western Digital) keeps ejecting itself from my iMac after plugging it in (approximately 30 seconds to a minute afterwards). I never get the error that it was ejected incorrectly and this ONLY occurs when I use my iMac, not my MacBook Pro nor the Macs at school.

Also, before this issue I had been plugging the hard drive in to my iMac via D-Link USB Hub and never had an issue, I also tried plugging in the hard drive via the USB ports in the back of my iMac once experiencing this issue and obviously still does not do the trick.

Please Help!

Dysfunction · Dysfunction #2 (**permalink**)

01-18-2012, 07:55 PM

Try resetting the SMC.

Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)

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hemispheres #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 03, 2011 Posts: 3 Mac Specs: iMac-2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo-4GB RAM	01-18-2012, 07:39 PM Recently my external hard drive (1 TB My Passport Western Digital) keeps ejecting itself from my iMac after plugging it in (approximately 30 seconds to a minute afterwards). I never get the error that it was ejected incorrectly and this ONLY occurs when I use my iMac, not my MacBook Pro nor the Macs at school. Also, before this issue I had been plugging the hard drive in to my iMac via D-Link USB Hub and never had an issue, I also tried plugging in the hard drive via the USB ports in the back of my iMac once experiencing this issue and obviously still does not do the trick. Please Help!
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