I have stored my digital photo on this external hard drive.
When the power cable is plugged in, the green light on the power box comes on but the lights in the drive do not come on nor does the drive itself
Any suggestions on getting the drive to come on so I can retreive my photos?
I've had this same problem, and the solution for me was in the USB cord, not the cheap one that came with it I had to buy a more expensive USB cord, one with brass or gold colored ends on it afterwards I was able to retrieve all my photos, music, etc. I hope this helps
I followed businessman4's advice and tried another usb cord. my new computer, using window's 7, immediately recognized my external hard drive. Thanks!
Try changing usb ports and nothing happens then try simply turning off the power but on the box only
The Master Boot Record (MBR) or File Allocation Table (FAT) may have become currupt. This can happen on Internal hard drives and even memory cards.
If you are using windows Vista, try connecting it to windows xp machine and see if the drive can be read. If it can, let windows do a full system scan on the drive and set it to automatically repair errors.
If you still continue to have problems you may need a File Recovery utility. Please see the information below.
Price Range - $35 - $70
Easeus Data Recovery Wizard - http://www.easeus.com/
Partition Recovery – Either Active File Recovery , Active Undelete or Active Partition Recovery. All of them are great. - http://www.partition-recovery.com/products.htm
I hope this helps you
Tony
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