![]() ![]() In any case, connect the hard disk drive directly to your Mac and use Disk Utility. The reason for all those various symptoms is due to the variety of hard disk drive failure modes that can manifest, and the configuration of your network. Depending on your network configuration and complexity, it can even bring down your entire network. In some cases the Extreme will determine the disk needs attention and its LED will flash amber, or (again in some cases) the Extreme itself will no longer appear in AirPort Utility. When that happens, AirPort Utility will no longer indicate the disk is connected. The Extreme gives up attempting to mount it, and it just disappears. While we await your answer regarding the integrity of the backup disk, if you have a backup disk that abruptly stops working and no longer appears in AirPort Utility, it usually means the backup disk has suffered some degree of corruption and cannot be mounted. I won't comment further at this point to avoid confusion. John Galt has directed you to the correct path with his advice to connect the drive directly to your Mac to make sure that is it working that way and then checking the drive using Disk Utility / First Aid. Do you have another USB device that you can use to test to see if the product works when you connect it to the USB port on the AirPort? If the USB port checks out OK.I imagine it will.then you have to shift your focus to the USB hard drive. I suppose it is possible that the USB port on the AirPort has failed, but that would be extremely rare. ![]() The fact that the drive worked for you for some time without the need for a powered hub indicates that a powered hub is likely not the solution for your particular issue. If the correctly formatted drive does not show up during this initial check, then that indicates that a powered USB hub is required to get enough power to the USB drive. The port on the AirPort either has enough power for the drive or it doesn't. This issue referred to the initial step of connecting the USB drive to the AirPort Extreme for the first time. Archived posts on this question mentioned that the only solution was to install a powered USB hub because the airport extreme USB port had insufficient power ![]()
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