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Unable to mount external HDD
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1903849" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Open Dsk utlity. Click on the "View" button on the top bar of the window, then "Show All Devices." The drive should now appear in the left sidebar with the hardware name. You can try First Aid on the hardware level, but from what you have done already it probably won't work. You will need to reformat the drive, and to do that will erase everything on it. </p><p></p><p>To do the reformat, select the hardware line in the sidebar, then click on Partition on the top bar, give a name for the drive, select APFS and GUID partition scheme. Let it do what it does and at the end the drive will have mounted under the name you gave it. But it will be totally empty, as I said.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1903849, member: 396914"] Open Dsk utlity. Click on the "View" button on the top bar of the window, then "Show All Devices." The drive should now appear in the left sidebar with the hardware name. You can try First Aid on the hardware level, but from what you have done already it probably won't work. You will need to reformat the drive, and to do that will erase everything on it. To do the reformat, select the hardware line in the sidebar, then click on Partition on the top bar, give a name for the drive, select APFS and GUID partition scheme. Let it do what it does and at the end the drive will have mounted under the name you gave it. But it will be totally empty, as I said. [/QUOTE]
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