Questions & Answers for: hard drive light stays

Hard drive My hard drive was working fine untill the other day. The computer doesn't recognise it at all. The power surply lights on the adaptor and the drive flash. Previously they were on permantly.

...spin, it just stays on. Is there a fix? The light is supposed to be on, it indicates 2 things 1) When it is being accessed 2) The amount of data on it. The ring glows more when it is getting

...light stays on the hdd until the cpu recognize the drive then it goes out and never boots the drive, but will contine to sound like its spining, also tryed on another computer and same thing could ...

...it stops. screen goes blank and the on/off light for the monitor blinks. indicator light on the hard drive stays lit. no flashing. and there's no noise coming from the drive. my windows logo is ...

...light on the flash drive would fade in/fade out. Inserted the drive into a desktop computer rather than on my laptop and it worked just fine. Insufficient power was the culprit. Thanks for the

light on adaptor and blue light on external HDD are off. When I turn on AC power supply, green light on adaptor and blue on external hard drive stay off. sounds like you need a new power supply for it

hard drive will not turn on, light blinks i have a WD 1TB my book, and a macbook pro. my hard drive has worked fine until now. when i plug it into power only, the light blinks about once per second, ...

...Hard Drive light - it could be because you plugged the cable to the hard drive in the wrong way around. You will need to be more specific though. What colour is the light? where is the light? any ...

...hard drive not seen by computer it's an external maxtor 3100, it spins up with some beeps and then both the green light and orange light stay on and beeps stop. tried on several different ...

...hard drive light, it blinks really fast when the computer is accessing the hard drive. Very, very rarely will you have to worry about it. If it stays on for more than a minute or so without blinking ...