truetexan wrote:
I have a western digital "my passport" external hard drive, 4 tera, that i have been using for the last year or so to store my photos. Lately I have been having a problem booting up the hard drive. Doesn't seem to be able to find the HD to start it when I plug the hard drive in. Recently i have begun to 1) plug the hard dive in and then 2) reboot my Mac. Then the hard drive is recognized and I can start the hard drive. Has anyone else run acroos this issue with xtrnl HD's, could it be the cable, or should fear the worst and try to get a new external HD and then move all my photos to the new hard drive ?...eeek...thanks for your help ya"ll...
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A favorite saying in the computer industry is, "there are two types of computer users: those who have lost data, and those who will lose data." Fear the worst and take action now while you still have a chance of recovering the data.
I back up all of my files to a cloud service. Some services are better than others, but I like the fact that the backup is automatic and stored off site. I also have a network drive (NAS) on my home network. I don't have RAID set up, but plan to do so soon.