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This answer explains how you can restore the drive icons for a G-Tech hard drive on Mac OSX after formatting the drive.*END Please follow the instructions below for assistance restoring the drive icon for a G-Technology branded drive: • Download the icon package from our website here:. • Once the file has downloaded, you will see a disk image file on your desktop titled G-TECH Icons • Double click on the file to open the folder and you will see all the G-Tech icons. • Highlight the icon that you want to use and press the Command key and the C key at the same time to copy the Icon to the clipboard. • On your desktop select the drive that you would like to apply the icon to. Press the Command key and the I key at the same time to open the Info window. • Click on the Icon in the upper left part of the Get Info window.

• Press the Command key and the V key at the same time to paste the icon to the drive. • Close all windows. In case the answer did not answer your question, you can always visit the for help from WD users.

Dolphin emulator mac os 10.9.5 download. The first thing to do is with it connected, start up Disk Utility from the Utility folder in the Application folder on your computers hard drive. With Disk Utility running see if it shows on the left side. If it does then run disk first aid and tell it to repair. When it is done it will let you know if it fixed it or if you still need to do more. Usually a program such as TechTool Pro would help at this point.

If it doesn't show up in the disk Utility window then you might have a more serious hardware issue or if you have it go straight to TechTool Pro and see what happens. Bad news whenever a mounted drive is unplugged. Can corrupt drive and system. Have u ever unplugged an external drive while it's still mounted? U can hear a loud 'Clang' or 'click' in the drive as you are cutting power off to the disk abruptly and I believe this can definitely affect the drive. If you have a HFS+ partition, then Data loss itself isn't a problem, but on FAT or NTFS partitions, you can definitely lose Data. The other day I pulled a thumbdrive out of my Mac without unmounting it and the Mac refused to mount or 'see' it in DiskUtility.

I threw DiskWarrior at it and it repaired it. So, I recommend this software for any Mac user. What you have there is a WD Scorpio Blue drive in the 500GB flavor, model number WD5000BMVU. The controller board on it is known for being problematic. Your drive has a twin with a SATA interface instead of the USB interface, WD Scorpio Blue model WD5000BEVT. Your data is on the HD platters, it isn't going anywhere.

As you have defined the situation. The hard drive doesn't spin, isn't recognized by the computer. If I am wrong on my surmise of the situation. Try data recovery programs prior to following my suggestion. You need to acquire another hard drive with one of the previously mentioned model numbers. If you turn your hard drive over you should find screws attaching the circuit board to the hard drive. You need to remove the screws and slowly, gently lift the board away from the hard drive.

Pay close attention while you are doing this because there maybe a delicate ribbon cable coming from the hard dive and attached to the controller board. You need to release that cable if one is there to remove the controller board from the hard drive. You need to repeat this process with the newly acquired hard drive. Then take the good controller board and attach it to the one that has your data. If the reading heads made it to their parked position not only will your hard drive be recognized but your data will be fully accessible with out the aide of a data recovery program.

If the heads didn't make it to their parked position your drive will be recognized by the computer and it may say the HD needs formatted. Don't pay attention to that and do not format it. A good data recovery program will find your information anyways. If you need to use a data recovery program you will also need enough free space on a hard drive to move the data over to.

I have done this successfully several times. I've never had a time where I tried it and it didn't work. I have done it with western digital hard drives, never with your model of hard drive. Several people here have mentioned data recovery programs. I am not an Apple person. If your operating system was Windows I would recommend several to you.