Re:External USB HDD (2 partitions) is not showing

2010-02-25 Thread Neil Houghton
(Re-sent with new subject as per Ronni's post) Hi Alan, Just an off-the-wall thought - you aren't running Windows under parallels or fusion are you? If you are - is the USB drive being "captured" by Windows and so unavailable to OSX (though, if so, I wouldn't have thought Time Machine could se

Re:External USB HDD (2 partitions) is not showing

2010-02-25 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Alan, I've changed the Subject as this is clearly not anything to do with the "top ten worst Apple products" thread. First question: Does the USB Drive have its own sleep or "spin down" mode? What I would suggest you try is this: 1. Temporarily un-checking the Put the hard disk(s) to sleep