200GB western Digital Drive stopped working

Hi all,
I have a Western Digital External USB Hard Drive that connects to my PB using a USB 2.0 cable. I used to use this hard drive for quite some time. I had to stop using it for a while (3 months or so), and then when I try to use it again, nothing happens.
I changed the cable, tried to connect to my iMac as well but nothing happens. I can hear the drive spinning when it is on, but the drive does not mount, actually nothing happens when it is connected to my PB.
Can anyone help? do i need to update the firmware? if so, how? i cheked the system profile when the PB is connected to the drive, but no information related to the drive shows up.
thanks,
Cleidson

Cleidson
Like BGreg has described, this sounds like a power supply issue. I have seen many hard drives that have displayed similar symptoms. Usually replacing the power supply has fixed the problem.
For example one scenario happens like this - switching on the drive gets the hard drive spinning and any LED light on the drive to activate but the drive clicks away and fails to mount. Disk Utility can see the drive but, again, no amount of trying will get the drive to mount. Replace the power supply and the drive will mount without any issues.
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Hi all,
I have a Western Digital External USB Hard Drive that connects to my PB using a USB 2.0 cable. I used to use this hard drive for quite some time. I had to stop using it for a while (3 months or so), and then when I tried to use it again, nothing happens.
I changed the cable, tried to connect to my iMac as well but nothing happens. I can hear the drive spinning when it is on, but the drive does not mount, actually nothing happens when it is connected to my PB.
Can anyone help? any incompabilities of this drive and Mac OS X 10.4.6?
thanks,
Cleidson
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The firmware is to the bridge itself. Use the System
Profiler to see if it appears as a USB device.
ok. i connected the external drive to my powerbook, turned it on and looked in the System Profiler. there was nothing related to the drive in it.
what should i do?
thanks,
cleidson

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