No light could indicate the power adapter is not connected to power. Desktop Drives typically require a power adapter. Try using the drive on a different computer.
If possible, try using a different cable.
Try connecting the drive to a different port on the computer. If your external hard drive is not accessible please try these basic troubleshooting steps first. The external hard drive itself, under normal circumstances, should be detected by your operating system, without the need of drivers, software or firmware updates. While it is possible that your external hard drive may have come with bundled software that may be incompatible with newer operating systems, this is typically just ‘back up’ software, and the drive is not dependent on that software to function. P.S.: I'm a former PC guy, so be gentle.There are several reasons why an external hard drive may not be accessible or detected when you connect it to your computer. I'm hoping that this is a SOFTWARE / User Error issue that I can solve at home-maybe I'm bogged down somewhere in OSX because I need to clean something out? Could OSX think it's still there somehow? Point III: I *DID* recently get rid of a Windows partition via Boot Camp, but I'm not showing that partition in existence anymore. I'm completely open to upgrading components if this is simply a hardware issue, but what gets me is that Leopard was working great: smoothly, nice startup time, etc.-then lately I get this feeling of resistance (and the frequent appearance of the little swirly "I'm busy" anti-hourglass) very often. Point II: Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Point: I'm showing 52.98GB free in a 92.84GB hard drive. 
The Patient: MacBook Pro, 2.16GHz with 2GB 533 DDR2 SDRAM, recently upgraded to Leopard (currently working with 10.5.5) when it released-and it all ran very well with no noticeable slowdowns upon upgrading.Īttempts to Fix: Repaired permissions, deleted junk files (pics, music, meh) then erased free space, at which point I'm warned that "YOUR HARD DRIVE IS NEARLY FULL.blah blah blah" The Symptoms: Recent marked slowdown in startup and general performance in the last two to three weeks-with no abnormal use or abuse or upgrades on my end.
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