External Hard Drive won't connect
I was using your tread for information on the way to solve the problem of my western digital 1TB drive was fine yesterday, and today it would not be recognized at all by my mac. I tried reseting the PRAM. I tried verifying and repairing permissions on my computers internal hard drive. I tried turning the drive on and off. I tried switching from fire wire to usb. I did find an unkown device under system prefrences/more information/firewire. So I knew that at some level it was registering with my computer. I downloaded stellar phoenix (free download), but there is no option to find and recover the actual drive, it is set up to recover information from your drive or trash. I talk to WD but I am past warranty, and he offered advice on who to use for information recovery services. I just moved the drive, and yes I shut it down first, so I thought maybe something cam loose inside the drive and it would be worth it to open it up and take a look.
When I went to do this, after shutting down properly again, I noticed there was a rest button on the back. I hooked my drive up as normal, got a paper clip, turned the drive on, pushed the reset button in for a ten missippi, and PRESTO it was a magic fix that no one suggested. Hope this helps someone!