Ok I'm scared I'm going to post this and it's already somewhere in the forums but I've been searching for a few hours now, all over google too but can't find any thread with quite the same problem I have. So sorry if this is somewhere else. I'm a new Mac convert too, about a month 
My problem is I have an Apacer sharesteno 80GB hard drive and it's not working, now it has worked before mounted and could read write just fine on OS X. Although I made the mistake of using a USB cable that connects to not only the usb port but also the charging port on the drive, it has an internal battery, which caused OS X to deactivate the port I was using on my Apple Keyboard because it was using to much current. Now before I found if I unplugged the keyboard and plugged it back in it would reset and I could use that port. And the drive would work fine after unplugging the cable from the power port.
I then didn't use the drive for a couple of weeks and today I wanted to use it so plugged it in being careful not have the power cable plugged in too and nothing happened. The drive wouldn't mount.
So I went looking for it in Disk Utility but it wasn't there. I then went searching for a solution on google but couldn't find anything that matched. Tried the drive on a Windows computer I have and it read it fine. I also checked for errors on the drive. Windows found none. I thought that would have fixed it being able to mount the drive on a different computer but when I took it back to my iMac it still didn't show up.
I went looking for the drive in all the places I knew it could possibly show up on a Unix OS but couldn't find it. The only place I can find it is if I go into System profiler and under USB in the Keyboard hub I can see that OS X nows that it's plugged in but it doesn't seem to know it's a hard drive.
It gives me this information:
Version
Bus Power
Speed
Product ID
Serial number
Vendor ID
but no other information like it would give if you were looking at a hard drive. E.g Capacity
If anyone can help or nows how to get OS X to tell it's a hard drive it would be appreciated.
Hope I've given useful information and it's not too long
Thanks
My problem is I have an Apacer sharesteno 80GB hard drive and it's not working, now it has worked before mounted and could read write just fine on OS X. Although I made the mistake of using a USB cable that connects to not only the usb port but also the charging port on the drive, it has an internal battery, which caused OS X to deactivate the port I was using on my Apple Keyboard because it was using to much current. Now before I found if I unplugged the keyboard and plugged it back in it would reset and I could use that port. And the drive would work fine after unplugging the cable from the power port.
I then didn't use the drive for a couple of weeks and today I wanted to use it so plugged it in being careful not have the power cable plugged in too and nothing happened. The drive wouldn't mount.
So I went looking for it in Disk Utility but it wasn't there. I then went searching for a solution on google but couldn't find anything that matched. Tried the drive on a Windows computer I have and it read it fine. I also checked for errors on the drive. Windows found none. I thought that would have fixed it being able to mount the drive on a different computer but when I took it back to my iMac it still didn't show up.
I went looking for the drive in all the places I knew it could possibly show up on a Unix OS but couldn't find it. The only place I can find it is if I go into System profiler and under USB in the Keyboard hub I can see that OS X nows that it's plugged in but it doesn't seem to know it's a hard drive.
It gives me this information:
Version
Bus Power
Speed
Product ID
Serial number
Vendor ID
but no other information like it would give if you were looking at a hard drive. E.g Capacity
If anyone can help or nows how to get OS X to tell it's a hard drive it would be appreciated.
Hope I've given useful information and it's not too long
Thanks
