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Macbook Pro sees external drives but doesn't mount or show them in the disk utility.
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1812378" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Sounds like the drives are either going to sleep, or turning off, on their own, so when you try to find them, they are not there. The interface in them is not responding to the OS, or to Disk Utility and Finder.</p><p></p><p>I think the drives are toast. At this point, I'd take everything I can off of them while you can see them and replace them. Right now drives are cheap.</p><p></p><p>One final thought: I had some WD drives that kept disconnecting. Took one drive apart and put the disk itself into a new enclosure and it worked perfectly. Did the same with two others and now have three functioning drives. The issue was with the USB interface in the drive enclosure, not the drive itself. After you pull the data off the drives and replace them, you can try that if you want to see if you can rescue the drives at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1812378, member: 396914"] Sounds like the drives are either going to sleep, or turning off, on their own, so when you try to find them, they are not there. The interface in them is not responding to the OS, or to Disk Utility and Finder. I think the drives are toast. At this point, I'd take everything I can off of them while you can see them and replace them. Right now drives are cheap. One final thought: I had some WD drives that kept disconnecting. Took one drive apart and put the disk itself into a new enclosure and it worked perfectly. Did the same with two others and now have three functioning drives. The issue was with the USB interface in the drive enclosure, not the drive itself. After you pull the data off the drives and replace them, you can try that if you want to see if you can rescue the drives at all. [/QUOTE]
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