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External Hard drive not mounting onto Late 2013 Macbook Pro
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1748752" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Welcome to our forums.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for posting the screen shot. I have to ask.... why is the drive formatted to NTFS? I realize that's the way it came from the factory but I would have thought that you would have re-formatted it for your Mac? Also, if you notice.... Disk Utility is telling you that the drive is "uninitialized". As long as it's in that state, it won't mount on your desktop.</p><p></p><p>You will need to use Disk Utility to format the drive to HFS+ (Mac Extended Journaled) and to the GUID scheme before it will mount. There is a possibility that the drive may have problems since it's two years old and hasn't been used. Also keep in mind that if you have data on the drive it will be destroyed if you format it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1748752, member: 46727"] Welcome to our forums. Thanks for posting the screen shot. I have to ask.... why is the drive formatted to NTFS? I realize that's the way it came from the factory but I would have thought that you would have re-formatted it for your Mac? Also, if you notice.... Disk Utility is telling you that the drive is "uninitialized". As long as it's in that state, it won't mount on your desktop. You will need to use Disk Utility to format the drive to HFS+ (Mac Extended Journaled) and to the GUID scheme before it will mount. There is a possibility that the drive may have problems since it's two years old and hasn't been used. Also keep in mind that if you have data on the drive it will be destroyed if you format it. [/QUOTE]
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