How to mount external hard drive mac

00:40it's macro Pro it's not Windows okay and

00:43we have also like a mechanical hard

00:45drive here it's an external drive

00:47and it's like we have a USBC little

00:49dongle or I guess adapter attached to it

00:52and we're gonna be showing you guys

00:53pretty cool tip so if you're using it

00:56um you might be using it all the time

00:59maybe to read and write some data Maybe

01:00transfer files back and forth and then

01:02maybe there's a sudden power surge or

01:04maybe someone disconnects it and then

01:06you have an issue with the drive let me

01:08show you just a quick little tip about

01:09this hard drive here and what actually

01:10happens I'll show you a great example

01:12actually let's get right into it

01:15okay so we have a Macbook here obviously

01:17it's open and we also do have our

01:19Seagate drive here I'm going to plug it

01:21in you'll see these This little light

01:23come on you can feel the disc actually

01:24spinning and we should get the drive to

01:26come up in the corner there there it

01:27goes so in a typical sense if we're

01:30going to be having a drive here let's

01:32just say for instance we're going to be

01:34reading to the drive or writing to the

01:36drive itself and we also might be

01:39transferring a few things back and forth

01:40right so this is actually transferring

01:42and we'll just go transfer something

01:43over here and suddenly it gets knocked

01:46gets disconnected now if you have large

01:49files or if you have large things that

01:51are actually going on moving

01:52transferring back and forth this can be

01:54a big problem because it didn't eject

01:56this was not ejected properly that's

01:58usually what it says and then also say

01:59this operation cannot be completed

02:01because the device disappeared so now

02:03what we're going to do is try to plug it

02:04back in

02:06and actually see what comes up here

02:08we'll have this utility open ready so we

02:10see that there's a blinking light or at

02:12least it will be so it's trying to read

02:14now I can feel the disc actually

02:16spinning in there but we don't see the

02:17drive in the corner and if we actually

02:20go not to system settings I don't know

02:21why I did that but we've got a Disk

02:22Utility

02:24and what we're going to see is we're

02:25going to see a drive usually come here

02:27and it should be more blank than

02:30anything else right

02:33so it's loading a disc you see this one

02:34see it's grayed out over here now what

02:37we can do is especially if it's grayed

02:39out it's not mounting you can't see it

02:40even in File Explorer

02:43um we don't see anything else here

02:43because that's usually where the

02:44locations are for the drive what we need

02:46to do is we can actually try one thing

02:48we can actually try to hit First Aid on

02:50it because it doesn't seem like there is

02:52a problem with drive you see it's still

02:53blinking it's still trying to read but

02:54and it's just great out there so let's

02:56try to see if we can fix it this way so

02:58let's hit first aid

03:00and we're going to run first aid on this

03:02drive and it says this one oh it's not

03:05able to do a first aid so what else can

03:07we really do for this one if we're not

03:08able to run a first aid that's really

03:10strange right we can't mount it either

03:13we can't do anything in the meantime but

03:15it is doing this now we've seen a few

03:17times actually if you wait out a bit it

03:19should probably eventually pop up

03:20because what it's doing is it's doing a

03:22check disk error actually automatically

03:24and it should eventually pop up it's a

03:26two terabyte drive but it will take some

03:27time an event that it doesn't pop up you

03:30can either have a problem with the drive

03:31itself or we can actually use another

03:33method and that would be requiring to

03:35have a Windows machine so let's actually

03:36go ahead and plug in our Windows machine

03:38and see how it acts so I'm going to go

03:40to My Windows desktop I'm going to plug

03:41in the same drive here and it's going to

03:43show up a little bit differently it's

03:44going to give me a warning message here

03:45right

03:46so we'll see probably at the bottom

03:48corner

03:49it pop up it says there's a problem with

03:51this drive scan the drive now to fix it

03:53and you want to do this and what it's

03:55going to actually do is it's going to

03:56fix the problem right so it's going to

03:57mount on the Mac so if we hit scan and

03:59fix now and it's going to repair the

04:01drive it won't be you won't be able to

04:03use it in the meantime which is totally

04:04fine so we're going to do scan repair

04:08and we're going to let that go for a bit

04:10that could take a very long time

04:11especially in the size of the drive this

04:13one's a two terabyte drive so it might

04:14take actually some time so I'm just

04:16going to be waiting right here so it did

04:18finish it said the drive was

04:19successfully scanned that we hit close

04:20and usually it pops up immediately when

04:22it closes there so we do see the data

04:25here now we can go ahead and plug in our

04:26Mac and see if it works

04:32okay let's go ahead and plug it back in

04:34and now to just pop up normally right

04:36because it's already been fixed

04:41it's either lights blinking and there it

04:43is in the corner and it's mounted

04:45everything looks to be good and we can

04:47open it up so that's good

04:49all right guys so this is the best case

04:51scenario actually if you do have a

04:54problem

04:55um with it not mounting and you want to

04:57get at least mounting if that was a

04:58major problem this is a good way a

05:01little tip for it for a basic level

05:03troubleshooting at least on a drive here

05:04to make sure the drive is fine if you

05:06don't see a light blinking you you don't

05:07feel the disc spinning inside there when

05:10you plug it in nothing actually happens

05:11at all you don't see the drive name in

05:14there then there's probably another

05:15issue with the drive as well it can be a

05:16problem with with the board

05:17communicating with the drive it can be

05:19lots of other things going on with it

05:20but that's why where day Recovery Center

05:23we do obviously those type of levels of

05:24repair as well but it's just a quick

05:26little tip just to see this is just a

05:28quick little tip for you guys actually

05:29at home if you guys want to go ahead and

05:31try that out if this did happen to your

05:32drive again first date might actually

05:35fix it but sometimes we've actually seen

05:37that it actually doesn't but if you've

05:39waited out you might actually let it

05:41automatically fix itself in the

05:42backgrounds probably give it a while it

05:44can be even a few hours it's very

05:45possible especially on the size of the

05:46drive I know I cut out the part for the

05:48windows one but it did take about like

05:4915 or 20 minutes just to get that to

05:51come back up and to finish it with a bar

05:53coming but at least actually shows a bar

05:55there and we're able to see the data as

05:56well but this is why Always guys for any

05:59type of drives if you have any type of

06:00things whatsoever make two backups of it

06:02always have an extra backup as well

06:04because that's why we're here we have we

06:07see Dave recovery see people that just

06:08have one backup of a drive I know it's a

06:10little bit harder to get extra backups

06:11of it but if it's extremely important to

06:13you definitely want to have another

06:14backup anyways guys I hope you guys

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