I don't find an icon for it on my desktop. It has been connected to my computer for - Answered by a verified Mac Support Specialist We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our website.
If you were able to repair it using Disk Utility, then it should be mounted on your Desktop. If it is, then check if your backups are still viewable. If they are, then you can try backing it up to another hard drive using a backup utility like Carbon Copy Cloner 4.0.
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If you can't transfer your files, then they are lost. You will need to try other methods:
General File Recovery
If you stop using the drive it's possible to recover deleted files that have not been overwritten by using recovery software such as MAC Data Recovery, Data Rescue II, File Salvage or TechTool Pro. Each of the preceding come on bootable CDs to enable usage without risk of writing more data to the hard drive. Two free alternatives are Disk Drill and TestDisk. Look for them and demos at MacUpdate or CNET Downloads. Recovery software usually provide trial versions that enable you to determine if the software would help before actually paying for it. Beyond this or if the drive has completely failed, then you would need to send the drive to a recovery service which is very expensive.
The longer the hard drive remains in use and data are written to it, the greater the risk your deleted files will be overwritten.
Also visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on Data Recovery.
Lot of Mac OS X users reported this issue in Apple support communities. External hard drive showing up in Disk utility not in Devices. This problem also happened after OS X Yosemite update.
Solution 1:-
Go to Settings -> Finder Preferences . Under the General tab, select External drive in “Show these items on the desktop”.
Solution 1:-
Go to Settings -> Finder Preferences . Under the General tab, select External drive in “Show these items on the desktop”.
Solution 2 :-
Go to Disk utility and select the external drive from the left sidebar. Choose verify disc. It will find and correct minor errors.
Solution 3:-
If you are connecting your external hard drive with Mac using USB Hub, check the USB hub first.
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Solution 4:-
- Open Disk Utility. If your external USB drive drive faded/greyed out and unmountable?
- Connect another external drive or Pen drive to computer. This drive also not recognized drive?
- Do the proper eject from the Finder window list.
- Restart your computer and connect the external drive.
Solution 5:-
- From the Finder menu, select “Go to Finder”.
- Type the external drive path what appears under Disk Utility. Ex: /Volumes/sleekdisk
Solution 6:-
Drive not showing up in Finder but visible in Disk Utility?
Go to Finder window and view below the favourite list. If the drive greyed Out? Select the drive. It might visible.
Go to Finder window and view below the favourite list. If the drive greyed Out? Select the drive. It might visible.
Solution 7 :-
- Shut down your Mac computer .
- Unplug the power cord.
- Unplug all USB connections.
- Wait 30 seconds or 5 minutes then plug it back in.
- Then turn on your MacBook Pro or iMac.
- Plug the external drive only to the USB port. Open Finder and check your drive.
Solution 8:-
Install and run run Onyx (maintenance freeware) or
run Kext_Utility.app.v2.6.1 and restart your Mac machine.
run Kext_Utility.app.v2.6.1 and restart your Mac machine.
Solution 9:-
Some times this issue might happened because of the unsupported drive format.
Install Fuse for OS X, NTFS-3G for Mac OS X and Fuse wait.
Restart your computer and check the issue.
Install Fuse for OS X, NTFS-3G for Mac OS X and Fuse wait.
Restart your computer and check the issue.
If the above methods not working?
- Install fresh OSX Yosemite.
- Connect your segate external drive or WD passport to Windows computer. Delete the partition and connect back to MacBook Pro.
If you knew any other solutions, inform us via comment.