#Apricorn sata wire not recognized portable#

Now that I have two apparently non functioning backup drives, I would greatly appreciate any insights you guys could offer. It can see it within the Disk Utility program and from within system profiler, but it appears not to see it on the desktop. The macbook will not recognize the drive. Bringing the EHD back to my MacBook, I plugged it in and nada. Again I launched DU and it said the disk needed repair, and again the repair process stopped after a few minutes saying it could not repair the disk. I walked over to the imac and presto- exactly the same thing happened as before- it could not recognize the drive. Then it backed up the entire disk- again taking about 30+ minutes to do so. Once done, I launched Time Machine and it reformatted the entire drive. Upon connecting it to the MacBook, it launched an internal app which installed Memeo (apparently Seagates version of Time Machine). Figuring the drive was busted, I went out and bought a 1 TB seagate drive. I brought the disk back to the MacBook and same result- MacBook could not see the disk even though it had just back up the entire thing 30 minutes previously. After about 10 mins, DU said this disk cannot be repaired. Midway through, DU said 'this disk needs to be repaired.' So, I began the repair process. I launched Disk Utility on the imac and it was able to see the drive, so I tried to verify the disk. After that backup was completed, I took the drive to the imac and attempted to do a backup and the imac was unable to see the drive. It backed everything up from scratch - took about 25-30 mins.

Yesterday, my Seagate went to back up the MacBook, and time machine displayed a message that it could not read the previous backup and needed either to erase it or create a new one (something like that anyway).

Have had close to a dozen backups successfully performed on each machine.

#Apricorn sata wire not recognized portable#

I'm going to add my experience to this thread: Been using a 500GB Seagate portable external harddrive with my MacBook Pro for about 6 months to back up my MacBook as well as my iMac Desktop.