Ejected, then tried with next - and it then showed up. With third disk I did not open Photoshop but it mounted correctly - maybe a little time lag but it's a 4T drive, so might have needed time to mount. So, maybe if you have a software program that needs to find the disk not Time Machine - did not work - you might try finding it that way. Whoops - just saw where drive did not work on other computers.
Maybe someone looking for answers to my issue will see this newbie contributer here. You can go into Disk Utility and try to re mount the disk but I found that it won't always work. I dont belong this this software company, but I just mount my external drive successfully with it. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. My WD external drive unmounted itself and now does not work Ask Question. Asked 4 years, 7 months ago. Active 1 year, 11 months ago. Viewed 11k times. I have a strange problem. Working on an OS Is it dead? How can I prevent this from happening again? How can I recover my files if I can't see the disk??? Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
Suggestions on these sites: External drive does not mount after plug off without eject and Sometimes Mac doesn't recognise my external hard drive e. Dec 4, PM. Jan 19, PM in response to elliswicks In response to elliswicks. I also could not unmount my external harddrive. I tired everything and this was my last chance and it worked! Super excited to have 1TB external back and fully functional again. Jan 19, PM. Nov 17, PM in response to elliswicks In response to elliswicks.
You should have no problems carrying out Step 3. If this fails, you'll have to rely on Joe Gramm's advanced method. Hope you and anybody else have benefited from this simpler method! Don't forget to like or put "This solved my question" or "This helped me"!
Nov 17, PM. Nov 18, AM. Actually this just happened to me with an Iomega external 2tb. I'm going to try galaxy users tip first and ill post results shortly. Feb 27, AM. More Less. Communities Get Support.
Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. The option will be listed in the left pane. The names differ among Windows versions.
Click on the drive you wish to unmount. A list of all currently active drives will be available under the "Devices and drives" heading towards the middle of the page. This drive must be either a removable hard drive e. Click the Manage tab. It's in the ribbon at the top of the File Explorer window. In case your Windows version is missing the ribbon, simply right-click the drive instead.
You'll find this option in the "Media" section of the ribbon. Remove the drive from your computer. After clicking this button, you'll see the drive's icon disappear from the File Explorer window, and a notification letting you know that it's safe to remove the hard drive will appear. Gently disconnect the drive from your computer to complete the unmounting process. Method 2. Open the Finder. This app, which resembles a blue and gray face, is usually found in the Dock at the bottom-left.
Locate your drive's name. It will be on the left-hand side of the Finder window below the "Devices" heading. This must be a removable drive e. It's to the right of your drive's name. I scan with antivirus software and deleted affected files. A large number of files are corrupted. Hi Gilbert, First, restart your mac Sometimes when you turn it back on, everything returns to normal.
Secondly, Repair the unmounted Macintosh HD in recovery mode. Third, fixed your Macintosh HD not mounted by the terminal. Fourth, run FSCK command in single-user mode. Last if have you lost your data so you can recover with the help of Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac. Please help me recover as the SSD contains important projects and documents. I suggest you to install Stellar Data Recovery Professional for Mac to recover your important documents and to avoid any data loss risk.
The software scans your unrecognized SSD and list all the recoverable files. To save the files, you need to register the software. Leverage Stellar Mac Data Recovery and you can recover data from unmounted disk conviniently. Thanks for another informative blog. Where else could I get that kind of info written in such a perfect way?
Would you recommend some solution for data recovery? Yes, we have solution for unmounted data recovery on MacOS. You can watch the tutorial video and then download Stellar Mac Data Recovery to recover your files. Recently i bought it from my friend. Then i upgraded it to Mac OS high sierra successfully.
I installed it and tried many times to upgrade to Mac OS high Sierra. But failed to installed. After 5 hours of download, the installation requires the system to restart but the restart is failed. I am very depressed and stuck with the mountain lion. Did you try erasing the Apple hard drive via recovery mode? Once in Recovery Mode, you can go to Disk Utility and erase the complete hard drive to a single partitioned drive. Just the solution I was looking for..
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