Unable to detect hard drive

[JamaineH]

i've got a Maxtor 160gb portable hard drive and when i plug into my mac it doesn't detect it. the light on the hard drive comes on but it doen't come up on my desktop.

any suggestions would be much appreciated

many thanks
Jamaine

 

[72930]

Does it show up in Disk Utility?

 

[Neil321]

Double post

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/440219/

 

[JamaineH]

nope, doesn't show in disk utility