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Step 2: Choose Get info in the context menu. Choose your newly formatted external device and click “Install”.
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Also, the drive automatically reconnects (I get a password prompt as the drive is encrypted). Some external hard drives need to be plugged into an outlet to work. FMC reset e Open Disk Utility and see if your external drive appears here. Storage devices (such as external hard drives) can also be available on your network. It may be that you are trying to connect to content that is only suitable for interacting with Windows devices. It will easily recover even your pictures from an external hard drive on Mac machines that is not showing up. Apple (in the top toolbar menu) > About This Mac > Storage. Now the whole drives and its containers are invisible, having disappeared. macOS Sierra will now begin installing on your external device.
Upon perusing this thread, I can across some other who were having problems with their drives mounting in High Sierra (10. As soon as I connect it and want to browse, it freezes a lot, takes an age to load contents and open files. Press “Shift + Command + C” to go to the top level of your Mac. Step 1: Start your Mac in single-user mode. Mount the Drive in Finder If you think the drive works fine, let us see if we can manually attach it to macOS. When I logged on as administrator, the new Aura SSD simply showed up.
When i first inserted two different floppies (400k MFS and 800k HFS, under Systems 7. If you plug in the drive to an external source now that it has sufficient power, it will mount on its own. Step 4: Check your USB disk on Mac desktop and open it to get the data. The external drive is not formatted in a macOS-recognized file format. Also, you can copy all the data from the drive to the Mac. Mounting an external hard drive isn't as simple as plugging it in.
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Essentially the same results on my vintage 2011 MacBook Pro 17-inch with High Sierra installed. Itfailed because "it could not unmount the old HD". I downloaded the Mac version of WD Diag which says the drive is OK. I've tested them on a Macbook Air running macOS Sierra, they also mount fine. External hard drives, thumb drives, USB drives, Flash memory cards, and devices like iPod are examples of storage devices that you can connect to your Mac using Thunderbolt, USB, or FireWire cables, or connect wirelessly using Bluetooth.
#MAC OS HIGH SIERRA PATCHER TOOL FOR UNSUPPORTED MACS INSTALL#
i managed to install el capitan on the external drive and use terminal to force erase the disk. If the box is checked, move on to fix the external hard drive not showing up on Mac. If you want to erase any other type of storage device: Double-click Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities folder. Enter your system password and hit Enter. Please Read more about Mac hard drive recovery here. Provide a name and a format to format the drive.
They've asked me to pull all the data off the hard drive and see if the drive can be initialized and the OS installed.