Hello, I’ve had an external My Book Essential hard drive for several months. I’ve always used it on my MacBook Pro. Although I also have a PC, I never formated in a way that allowed the PC to also read it, so I just use it on my Mac.
Recently I connected it and after a few minutes the Mac gave the error message that occurs when you don’t properly eject a disk. The drive icon was gone from the desktop.
I plugged it again and the Mac asked me if I wanted to format the drive. Of course I chose not to (as I have a lot of sentimental-value content in it) and disconnected it.
I waited about 15 minutes, plugged it again and I was releived that it did read it, and it did show my files. I opened a file, and I started browsign and it had been a few minutes and again got the Mac disk error message.
I waited a few days, tried again today and same as above happened.
At this point I don’t mind the drive, but really want to recover my files.
Any tips? I’d greatly appreciate any help, thank you!