My Mac computer won't recognize an external WD Drive via USB

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It worked in the past, but I forgot to eject it before unplugging it and it gave me that dire warning about never doing that again!

Now it won't recognize it at all when plugging in. I searched online for answers, and found that many people have probs with these irksome drives, but no answers yet.

Help?!

arxpoetica

Posted 2010-02-24T16:11:12.877

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Head on over to SuperUser.com -- this question will be there shortly. – Austin Salonen – 2010-02-24T16:13:17.667

Should probably be on superuser.com. – Mark Bell – 2010-02-24T16:13:21.357

I guess the first thing to do would be to open the Disk Utilities (Applications, Utilities) if the HD itself is there and "just" lost it's main partition. – Nicholaz – 2010-02-24T16:17:13.377

Answers

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The problem fixed itself. It might have been that I installed a WD support download but I think it's more likely it just needed time.

arxpoetica

Posted 2010-02-24T16:11:12.877

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I've got the same problem with a FAT32 HD. I just plug it to a Win PC, eject it properly and it was then ok to be plugged on the Mac.

Pierre Watelet

Posted 2010-02-24T16:11:12.877

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