I really hope that someone has a solution on this. If you're shopping for a portable hard drive, you probably have two things in mind: storage space and speed. I have redundant back up with Apple Time machine and raid storage now (except for these pictures of my son when he was a baby). If I can’t get the drive to be recognized, can I recover the media files off this? I could care less about the mechanical item now as I’m in salvage mode only. I’ve checked and swapped the USB cable with a brand new identical cable. The WD Element seems to be spinning fine (it’s certainly spinning when I pick it up and rotate it) and powers on without issue. So it’s not seen by a 2015 Mac or Windows XP machine (5 years old). I have just tried it on a windows laptop as well with no success at my office. No matter what I do, I have followed several steps from all different sources that I could find online such as powering off and unplugging and using Disk Utility and downloading Fuse and Tuxera, WD software, drives etc, but the drive is not recognized by my iMac or either of my MBP’s.
The laptop was zapped when I used a poor replacement battery and instead of replacing the windows laptop, I went with MBP. However, not all external FireWire optical drives are Mac-bootable. Be sure yours does before buying a FireWire external drive. First, not all iMac G3 models have FireWire ports. I had used this drive with a PC computer before. Looks like youve already figured out that you need a FireWire drive to boot a PowerPC Mac from a system disk. I have about 500mb’s worth of family photos on this drive that I do not want to reformat over. First posting so don’t kill me and I’m sure I’ve forgotten details too. Hello, Need some help please from the community experts here.
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