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Cannot view USB Hard Drive Icon

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Name: Hester
Date: February 28, 2009 at 05:25:37 Pacific
OS: Macintosh
Subcategory: Hardware Problems
Comment:

I have just connected a new USB hard drive and no icon appears on the desktop. However The box light is on and it is clicking as if to say it is working. Any ideas?



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Name: wackymacs (by Joshua Coventry)
Date: February 28, 2009 at 11:50:25 Pacific
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Is the hard drive formatted?

Does the hard drive appear in Disk Utility or in the System Profiler (you can find both of these in your Applications/Utilities/ folder).

Is the jumper on the hard drive set to Master rather than Slave or Cable Select (CS)?

Joshua Coventry
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