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My external hard drive stopped working after plugging it into a OS X Lion mac...
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<blockquote data-quote="harryb2448" data-source="post: 1425985" data-attributes="member: 42497"><p>G'day and welcome to the forums.</p><p></p><p>First up Macs do not run USB3 unless a third party PCI-E card is installed. Even if they did USB3 is backwards compatible with USB2. With the drive connected to your MBP go into Disk Utility and see if it appears on the list of drive. You may have to 'mount' the drive. Have you checked the Finder Preferences to ensure show external drives is selected?</p><p></p><p> Also make sure when removing the drive to drag it to the Trash prior to unplugging.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="harryb2448, post: 1425985, member: 42497"] G'day and welcome to the forums. First up Macs do not run USB3 unless a third party PCI-E card is installed. Even if they did USB3 is backwards compatible with USB2. With the drive connected to your MBP go into Disk Utility and see if it appears on the list of drive. You may have to 'mount' the drive. Have you checked the Finder Preferences to ensure show external drives is selected? Also make sure when removing the drive to drag it to the Trash prior to unplugging. [/QUOTE]
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