Wd External Drive Not Recognized Mac

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During this process, if the externally connected SSD is not recognized by your Mac, it's likely that the adapter is not compatible with the disk's SATA interface, or the dock/drive caddy is faulty. The external SSD is new and uninitialized.

1. Now, look for the external drive in the Disk Management window. To begin with, press Windows+R to arouse the Run interface. Msc to open the Disk Management window, where you can find your drive even if it is not recognized because of no partition. If you cannot find the drive in the Disk Management window then you can go for step 3.
2. Open Up Disk Utility. Your Disk Utility program lives within a folder called Utilities.

Lot of Mac OS X users reported this issue in Apple support communities. External hard drive showing up in Disk utility not in Devices. This problem also happened after OS X Yosemite update.

Solution 1: Change Preferences Settings

1. Launch Finder and choose Preferences .
2. Then tap on General tab and select External disks from Show these items on the desktop option.

1. Launch Finder and tap on Go -> Utility.
2. Then select Disk Utility and choose the external drive from the left sidebar.
3. Tap on Verify Disc to confirm the action.
4. It will find and correct some minor errors.

Solution 3: Check USB Hub

If you connecting your external hard drive with Mac using USB Hub, check the USB hub for any damage or any loose connection.

Solution 4:-

1. Launch Finder and tap on Go -> Utility.
2. Then select Disk Utility and choose the external drive from the left sidebar.
3. Tap on Verify Disc to confirm the action.
4. It will find and correct some minor errors.

Solution 3: Check USB Hub

If you connecting your external hard drive with Mac using USB Hub, check the USB hub for any damage or any loose connection.

Solution 4:-

1. Open Disk Utility. If your external USB drive drive faded/grayed out and unmounted?
2. Connect another external drive or Pen drive to the Mac. If still, the drive is not recognized?
3. Do the proper eject from the Finder window list.
4. Then, Restart your Mac and connect the external drive.

Solution 5:-

1. From the Finder menu, select 'Go to Finder'.
2. Type the external drive path what appears under Disk Utility. Ex: /Volumes/sleek-disk.

Solution 6:-

Drive not showing up in Finder but visible in Disk Utility?

Go to Finder window and view below the favourite list. If the drive greyed Out? Select the drive. It might visible.

Solution 7 :-

1. Shut down your Mac computer .
2. Unplug the power cord.
3. Unplug all USB connections.
4. Wait 30 seconds or 5 minutes then plug it back in.
5. Then turn on your MacBook Pro or iMac.
6. Plug the external drive only to the USB port. Open Finder and check your drive.

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Solution 8:-

Install and run run Onyx (maintenance freeware) or
run Kext_Utility.app.v2.6.1 and restart your Mac machine.

Solution 9:-

Some times this issue might happened because of the unsupported drive format.
Install Microsoft NTFS for Mac by iBoysoft.
Restart your computer and check the issue.

If the above methods not working?

• Install fresh OSX Yosemite.
• Connect your segate external drive or WD passport to Windows computer. Delete the partition and connect back to MacBook Pro.

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Wd External Hard Drive Not Recognized By Mac

20' intel iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4), 2 LaCie external hard drives and 1 Lacie external dvd burner

Posted on Aug 8, 2010 7:13 AM