Hi, I've got a 15" PB with a SmartDisk FireLite 80GB Firewire hard drive connected with my iTunes library. Connected to this is a sort of old Maxtor 120GB hard drive that acts as my Time Machine backup and also has another volume that has some extra files I don't often need.
Recently the Maxtor drive has stopped showing up and I'm not sure why. Time Machine says the last backup was on Friday the 16th. I had my computer away from the drive over the weekend, but since I got back it hasn't appeared. I tried plugging it in directly rather than through the other external drive, but it didn't make a difference. In neither case did it show up at all in Disk Utility. So my question is this: what can I do? Are there any methods to make it do something? Any help or suggestions is certainly appreciated. Thanks.
Recently the Maxtor drive has stopped showing up and I'm not sure why. Time Machine says the last backup was on Friday the 16th. I had my computer away from the drive over the weekend, but since I got back it hasn't appeared. I tried plugging it in directly rather than through the other external drive, but it didn't make a difference. In neither case did it show up at all in Disk Utility. So my question is this: what can I do? Are there any methods to make it do something? Any help or suggestions is certainly appreciated. Thanks.