You could ask somebody to take it out of the enclosure and try plugging it in to another enclosure or even using it internally in a computer. If it is a Mac formatted drive this would have to be a Mac.
I have managed to recover the use of two drives doing this . Unfortunately on both occasions in my case a reformat was necessary and so whilst I recovered the use of the drives I lost the data on them. I have heard of other people having more luck. If the data is precious there are data recovery firms but I believe this is an expensive option to use and would not be normally advised unless completely essential. David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Zachary Kline Sent: 14 April 2013 17:38 To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Hi all,I am having problems wuith an external drive not working on my Mac.Whe pluged in nothing happens. I hav tried several cables withthe same results. Any ideas? Thanks. Hi Matthew, By the sound of things, the drive may actually be dead. That is not something I like to say, but it looks very likely at this point. Have you another computer you can try plugging it into? If not, I'm afraid you might be out of luck. Wish I had better news, Zack. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 13, 2013, at 7:32 PM, Matthew Dyer <ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Zack, > > My drive usually gets power from the computer. I had been using this drive for at least a year before it just stopped working a few days ago. It is a 500 fb my passport drive which has my iTunes lyvrary on it. > > Thanks. HTH > > Matthew > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 13, 2013, at 10:18 PM, Zachary Kline <zkl...@speedpost.net> wrote: > >> Hi Matthew, >> FYI, the entire message you wanted to send was put into the subject line, and thus a bit confusing. Make sure you're actually typing that into the body in future. >> That being said, without more information it's hard to help you. Is the drive turned on, or does it not need to be? Is it plugged into power, or does it get that from the computer? 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