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Acomdata 250 external (SATA) hard drive not showing up on desktop

Acomdata 250 external hard drive with a SATA connection suddenly not showing up on desktop running G5,OSX. Drive is spinning, solid blue light on. Connectios are good. When I pull the data connection, desktop recognizes a device removal, but that's it. I understand that Acomdata uses OS system drivers in this case.

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go on line to acomdata web site and down load the driver from there

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Mar 26, 2009

SOURCE: running mac osx my acomdata external drive lights

This is the solution that worked for me.
Luckily I have another external drive of the exact same model that is working fine.
I used the power supply from the good working model and plugged it into the bad drive. The bad drive booted right up. Evidently the power supply was the issue, not the drive itself.
Even though the bad power supply had enough juice to light up the drive, it was not able to make the drive spin correctly.

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Apr 10, 2009

SOURCE: using acomdata hybriddrive on multiple os

If you're not going to use the included software then you should partition the drive for both of your os' (it is a fat32 drive).

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Feb 28, 2011

SOURCE: I have been using an Acomdata (HD250UE5-72) 250 GB

It is compatible with a Mac and will not require a re-format.

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