hi friends if you are wondering how to
access a USB drive which you have
connected to your Mac it is pretty
simple I am going to go ahead and
connect a USB drive to my Max USB port
after connecting it generally what
happens is the USB drive shows up on
your desktop like it just showed up over
here I can double click it and I can
start using it it also shows up inside
finder so if I go to finder you will see
under locations a new Untitled entry has
showed up which is my USB drive I can
also click eject over here but if you
are unable to still find it there are
two ways of diagnosing it first maybe
there is something wrong with the USB
port change the USB port if you are
using a SD card let me show you how a SD
card works the icon is slightly
different I am now going to insert an SD
card inside my Mac you will notice that
the SD card is also instantly detected
over here and shows up on the desktop
now if you are unable to see it the way
to diagnose your USB drive or SD card in
your Mac is to click command and space
and search for something called Disk
Utility
so I will search Disk Utility I will
double click on Disk Utility once it
opens up it shows me all the disks which
are connected to my Mac so you see over
here this SD card or USB drive shows up
over here and it is in ex f80 X fat
format now if your drive is in a wrong
format or has certain problems you can
click first aid over here if your drive
has showed up inside Disk Utility that
means it is not a problem with your USB
port it is being detected
but depending on what you see over here
as the system how the system has been
formatted there may be compatibility
issues so generally NTFS is not read
very well within Mac or there may be
some other error which you can click
first aid over here and you can run a
first aid on your external drive be
careful if you have data which is
sensitive which is important I recommend
that you connect your USB drive to a
Windows system first back it up and then
try to diagnose it over here inside your
Mac I hope this helps please do hit the
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