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My macbook air was able to read from my USB 3.0 external drive a couple weeks back when I last plugged it in prior to yesterday. Yesterday, when I plugged the drive back into the computer though, my machine was unable to detect the drive at all. It was not in finder, the desktop, or disk utility. Nor was it visible with the "diskutil list" command. I plugged the drive into a separate windows PC, which was able to access it fine. I scoured online for some tips, and ended up trying to use the usb prober tool, which didn't work. The drive has its own power adapter, and is not bus-powered. It turns on whenever I plug it in, but my machine is not able to detect it. I do not have another USB 3.0 device to test the macbook air with, but I have used other USB 2.0 external drives, which are detected by my macbook air fine. I updated to 10.8.3 before I plugged the USB 3.0 drive in, but I am not sure if that would be the cause of this issue. Are there any other tips that I could try that may remedy this issue? Any advise would be much appreciated with this predicament.
Try restarting your Macbook then plug the USB External Drive again and see if that works.
if all else fails - try doing a SMC RESET and see if that sorts it out for you.
Good luck
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