Cinema Liver
08-30-2009, 02:36 PM
Hi there.
For some reason Mac OS does not seem to like my external hard drive. It is a Free agent drive which is listed as being mac compatible (it even has a program for formatting it into the Mac file system.)
Anyway, the problem is, when I shutdown my Mac the drive continues to make noise. It is either spinning or a fan inside the drive is running.
I have sat around for 10 minutes and the drive shows no sign of stopping.
However as soon as I pull out the USB cable, the drive shuts down....pulling out the drives power cable also works, but that's not exactly a surprise.
Whenever I boot into Windows 7 and shutdown, the drive shuts down normally. So this must be a software issue.
I've looked around but the only similar issue I have found is someone who's drive needed to cool down, which is not the case with this one.
So does anyone have any ideas, reaching around to the back of my comp isn't a great, I'm also worried that whatever is causing the noise may be damaging the drive.
Thanks in advance.
For some reason Mac OS does not seem to like my external hard drive. It is a Free agent drive which is listed as being mac compatible (it even has a program for formatting it into the Mac file system.)
Anyway, the problem is, when I shutdown my Mac the drive continues to make noise. It is either spinning or a fan inside the drive is running.
I have sat around for 10 minutes and the drive shows no sign of stopping.
However as soon as I pull out the USB cable, the drive shuts down....pulling out the drives power cable also works, but that's not exactly a surprise.
Whenever I boot into Windows 7 and shutdown, the drive shuts down normally. So this must be a software issue.
I've looked around but the only similar issue I have found is someone who's drive needed to cool down, which is not the case with this one.
So does anyone have any ideas, reaching around to the back of my comp isn't a great, I'm also worried that whatever is causing the noise may be damaging the drive.
Thanks in advance.