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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1630010" data-attributes="member: 204485">I hear your pain PKthunder.&nbsp; Sometimes odd things work so try this. Leave your USB HD plugged into your Mac and switch off the Mac.&nbsp; Then boot up your Mac and see if the WD appears either on the desktop or in Disc Utility.If so you may have to erase and reformat to make it useable again.&nbsp; I know you said you had two years of backups on it, you did not say if this was Time Machine backup.&nbsp; If it is and your Mac is operating OK then you can perform another full backup from scratch.&nbsp; I do this roughly every year anyway assuming if I didn't need anything over a year old then I probably wont need it ever again.&nbsp; Also as I have upgraded Operating Systems at least yearly I see no point in keeping backups of Mavericks when I'm now running Yosemite.&nbsp; So once I'm satisfied everything is as it should be I erase the HD and start afresh.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1630010, member: 204485"] I hear your pain PKthunder. Sometimes odd things work so try this. Leave your USB HD plugged into your Mac and switch off the Mac. Then boot up your Mac and see if the WD appears either on the desktop or in Disc Utility. If so you may have to erase and reformat to make it useable again. I know you said you had two years of backups on it, you did not say if this was Time Machine backup. If it is and your Mac is operating OK then you can perform another full backup from scratch. I do this roughly every year anyway assuming if I didn't need anything over a year old then I probably wont need it ever again. Also as I have upgraded Operating Systems at least yearly I see no point in keeping backups of Mavericks when I'm now running Yosemite. So once I'm satisfied everything is as it should be I erase the HD and start afresh. [/QUOTE]

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