I have a firelite 40 gb portable hard drive. has been working great for years but now is not recognized by the computer and just blinks 6 times then once repeadedly. Any help would be appreciated.

TRY DOWLOADING NEW DRIVERS.
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It could be incorrectly formatted, if so you can reformat by using another computer that recognizes it or you may be able to find it on your laptop through a formatting tool. The formatting tool built into OSX is called "disk utility".

It's probably faulty - must be an old drive if only 40Gb,

Replace it with a new one.

try connecting to different usb port. if issue persist check if HDD it self has any issue. same can be checked by connecting it to any other computer.

try to the laptop firewire port, if works. I didnt find any support for youfirelite drive

Here's a page where you can download the firelite drivers for vista... Click Here

Hello alvaro 891,

You can go to this website,

http://www.ehow.com/how_4441105_format-laptop-hard-drive.html

Hope that helps.


Yours truly,
Art Pena

1st try a different computers make sure its not your Hard drive!
2nd if that works then go to the hard drive maker and download a software driver for it that should fix the problem

Ok same situation happened to me i dropped my Firelite 80Gig, drive would spin no light and the computer would not recognize the drive. All I did was open the case an saw the the internal hardrive had come loose from its pin connection. So all i did was pushed it back in and BAM now it works, hope this helps other people. Thanks C.J.