Verbatim 47501 green flashing light. Drive not rcognised on Mac Need data off urgently

ChinthakaJ

• 943 Answers
• Posted on Jun 10, 2009

SOURCE: verbatim external hardrive not showing up on computer?

A Hard disk making noise, does not sound too good. if it was waorking before on both PC's & not having issues then it has to be with the unit. try on a nother computer. if its the same thing i suggest you look for that warranty card of yours.

SOURCE: My Verbatim suddenly stopped working on my Mac OS

It sounds like your hard drive is damaged. Hard drives are very, very dilicate pieces of machinary. The disk is paper thin and any sudden jarring, especially dropping it creates a warp in the drive. It could also be just a mechanical failure. Unplug it to prevent further damage. Don't worry in many cases you can have the data retrieved from your hard drive by using this online company that I highly recommend:
http://www.gillware.com/

SOURCE: My laptop does not recognize my verbatim 8gb flash drive

go to Control Panel, then to System Mgr and then Devices. Check to see if all are marked with +s. You probably have a - in that area. Click on the minus and see what it says. You may need to add a driver or reinistall the flash drive.

SOURCE: Hello, my external harddrive (Verbatim, 500GB

> the HDD makes a clicking sound.

That's a very bad sign. :-(

> find a way to rescue the [files]

Search online for a professional "data recovery service". For a significant fee,
they can repair your disk-drive, just long-enough to copy your files onto a brand-new disk-drive.

SOURCE: My verbatim model 47562 connects

First of all try to:
- use a different usb cable to connect it
- connect it to a different computer
- connect it to a different USB port (preferably one in the back of the PC, not in the front plate)

If still isn't working, could be the electronics of the verbatim HDD case, you can try to open it, take out the hard drive and connect it directly to a desktop pc via SATA inteface. This can be tricky, so let me know if you need further assistance in doing that. You may need an adapter, depending on the HDD interface your desktop pc has
.
If unfortunately your drive is making mechanical repetitive clicking sounds it could be broken. If the data is very important to you, you can rely on companies like this:
http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/
to have it recovered, be warned though that the price will be expensive (about 1500$) so see if it's worth it.
Best regards