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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Desktop Hardware
Lost external hard drive
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<blockquote data-quote="harryb2448" data-source="post: 1607763" data-attributes="member: 42497"><p>Trust you powered down and dismounted the external first. Just pulling the plug with it connected can corrupt the drive same as in Windows. Turn off your iMac, remove plug from mains for ten minutes, reconnect, power up, connect external by USB or whatever, and see if it is recognised in Disk utility.</p><p></p><p>If you are lucky enough to see it there check it out. It may well need erasing and formatting alas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="harryb2448, post: 1607763, member: 42497"] Trust you powered down and dismounted the external first. Just pulling the plug with it connected can corrupt the drive same as in Windows. Turn off your iMac, remove plug from mains for ten minutes, reconnect, power up, connect external by USB or whatever, and see if it is recognised in Disk utility. If you are lucky enough to see it there check it out. It may well need erasing and formatting alas. [/QUOTE]
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