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<blockquote data-quote="Siouzxie" data-source="post: 814945" data-attributes="member: 90539"><p>(I am hoping that I posted this in the right forum)</p><p></p><p>I am hoping someone can help me. I have a vanishing Western Digital Passport. (USB)It has vanished off my desktop and is not in my finder either. I can see it in my Disk Utility but it is grayed out. We have attached it to my BF’S PC and it show up no problem. It will not mount on the MAC. It will flick from showing to not showing in Disk Utility. What I have tried is:</p><p></p><p>Rebooting</p><p>I Checked that “Show All External Drives” is checked.</p><p>Relaunched My finder</p><p>Tried to repair / restore but would not let.</p><p></p><p>The one other time that this happened we had to wipe it clean and reinstall. But I do not want to do that (It kinda defeats the purpose.). I want to find out why it is doing this. It seems to vanish after I do a system upgrade. I have heard with the USB contentions sometimes there is not enough power and if you get a Y cable it helps. But that seems to refer to the laptops.</p><p></p><p>The specs on my system are:</p><p>IMAC Power PC G5 1.8GHz</p><p>MAC OSX 10.5.6 Leopard</p><p>Processor Speed 1.8GHz</p><p>1.25 GB DDR SDRAM</p><p></p><p>Oh and one other thing – When it comes to this stuff I am a helmet wearing, short bus rider so please be kind.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p></p><p>Thank You</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Siouzxie, post: 814945, member: 90539"] (I am hoping that I posted this in the right forum) I am hoping someone can help me. I have a vanishing Western Digital Passport. (USB)It has vanished off my desktop and is not in my finder either. I can see it in my Disk Utility but it is grayed out. We have attached it to my BF’S PC and it show up no problem. It will not mount on the MAC. It will flick from showing to not showing in Disk Utility. What I have tried is: Rebooting I Checked that “Show All External Drives” is checked. Relaunched My finder Tried to repair / restore but would not let. The one other time that this happened we had to wipe it clean and reinstall. But I do not want to do that (It kinda defeats the purpose.). I want to find out why it is doing this. It seems to vanish after I do a system upgrade. I have heard with the USB contentions sometimes there is not enough power and if you get a Y cable it helps. But that seems to refer to the laptops. The specs on my system are: IMAC Power PC G5 1.8GHz MAC OSX 10.5.6 Leopard Processor Speed 1.8GHz 1.25 GB DDR SDRAM Oh and one other thing – When it comes to this stuff I am a helmet wearing, short bus rider so please be kind.:) Thank You [/QUOTE]
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