I think I;m starting to sort this out, if not actually SLOVE it,
the HD seems to have a bad volume header... other drives are working.
the Seagate 1T that dropped off came back with a nudge from MOUNT in
Disk Utilities and shows up fine on reboots
one iPod Touch wouldn't show up, while
On Apr 27, 2012, at 11:04 AM, JohnV wrote:
one iPod Touch wouldn't show up, while another one did
Now BOTH are working fine... maybe one was so far discharged it wouldn;t
function until it got restored to some level?
That's a possibility; I know that my MacBook Pro won't boot up
On 4/26/12 12:50 AM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Apr 25, 2012, at 6:33 PM, JohnV wrote:
When an external HD drops off the screen (presumably after going to
sleep) how does one get it to re-mount?
You've got a USB issue here. First your iPod Touch isn't recognized, now
you're saying your HDs are
Had a similar problem with an iMac at work and it also would go to sleep at
very spontaneous moments, typing, drawing, whatever it didn't matter just went
to sleep, hit any key and it would come back. When the HD icon disappeared
off the desktop, it would cause the drive to disappear from Disk
When an external HD drops off the screen (presumably after going to
sleep) how does one get it to re-mount?
John V
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On Apr 25, 2012, at 4:33 PM, JohnV wrote:
When an external HD drops off the screen (presumably after going to sleep)
how does one get it to re-mount?
John V
There may be utilities to do this, but you can fire up Disk Utility, select it
and select 'Mount' in the top bar.
You can also just
On Apr 25, 2012, at 8:07 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Apr 25, 2012, at 4:33 PM, JohnV wrote:
When an external HD drops off the screen (presumably after going
to sleep) how does one get it to re-mount?
John V
There may be utilities to do this, but you can fire up Disk
Utility, select it
At 7:33 PM -0400 4/25/2012, JohnV wrote:
When an external HD drops off the screen (presumably after going to
sleep) how does one get it to re-mount?
When a drive goes to sleep, the volume icons DO NOT drop off the screen.
If the volume icons went away without you intentionally dismounting
On Apr 25, 2012, at 6:33 PM, JohnV wrote:
When an external HD drops off the screen (presumably after going to
sleep) how does one get it to re-mount?
You've got a USB issue here. First your iPod Touch isn't recognized,
now you're saying your HDs are drop off the screen which isn't
