I have a 3tb mybook live which I’m running with Mac OS 10.7.5. I was having lots of problems with it dropping the connection and had a constantly flashing green light . The drive hadn’t been connected to or altered in any way for 5 days so it wasn’t doing anything.
I use the drive for my backup my last timemachine backup was 5 days ago. I have to do manually because the drive isn’t reliable enough to do a rolling automatic backup.
I reset the drive using the reset button on the back. I can now see the drive via my mac but now the password has reset and I can’t log in as a registered user, only as a guest. I have tried the default user and password admin and combinations of uppercase etc but no deal.
Even when the drive was connecting properly I would often hear it grinding away at 11pm even though nothing was connected and the drive hadn’t been accessed for days. I don’t know what that’s about but it concerns me that the drive is so active as it is my main backup - if the drive is overworking I can see it will fail sooner…
I’m getting so frustrated with this equipment and I’m starting to wish I had coughed up the extra for a timecapsule.
please someone help.
