#WD DRIVE UTILITIES MAC EXTERNAL FREE#
#WD DRIVE UTILITIES MAC EXTERNAL WINDOWS#

#WD DRIVE UTILITIES MAC EXTERNAL FREE#

I have personally used Disk Drill with excellent results (it's free to use the diagnostic portion and to see if you can recover data). If it is your drive, the USB to SATA adapter will allow you to attempt to recover your files. If one component works (i.e the drive), then you know for a fact that the other (i.e. There's a straightforward set of instructions on Р”Вepending on the option you took above - you either need to change the drive in the MyBook or plug the old drive into the USB to SATA adapter. From my research, the case appears to be held in place with 'snaps' which you just pry off so it shouldn't be too difficult to get into.

a 3.5' HDD to USB adapter (I recommend this option for reasons that will become clear momentarily).

So, to diagnose this you will need either of the following The key here is to isolate the major individual components of the WD enclosure - the logic board and the drive itself. However, you can take it a step further and do some additional diagnostics. The WD enclosure is reporting back that there is a drive but it has no operating system. It's highly unlikely (though not impossible), that if the enclosure wasn't functioning you would at least get erroneous information back or no information at all. The correct response provided by diskutil for disk1. If the problem was with your Mac, it wouldn't be present on a different computer. If it doesn't work on different computers you have narrowed it down the the WD unit itself. Points 4 & 5 above - that plugging it into different computers didn't work. I am basing this assessment on two factors: Read-Only Volume: Not applicable (no file system)Р”В®ither your WD MyBook enclosure has failed or the disk itself has failed. Volume Free Space: Not applicable (no file system) Volume Name: Not applicable (no file system)Р”В¬ontent (IOContent): GUID_partition_scheme Info: Last login: Sun Mar 26 16:39:26 on ttys000Р”Сћ: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 319.2 GB disk0s2Р”Р€: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3Р”В®ricaneomputer2:~ erica$ diskutil info disk1Р”Вevice / Media Name: WD My Book 1140 Media I'm terrified to plug in my other hard drives because what if the same thing happens to them!? Unfortunately all my Aperture libraries are stored on external disks! I also don't know whether to trust my machine to plug another hard drive into it. This is my time machine disk, and it has some other stuff on it I need.

Read suggestions on this thread about drives disconnecting on their own - wasn't sure what to do, but realized the problem might have had something to do with exporting Aperture files?.

Suggestions on these sites: External drive does not mount after plug off without eject and Sometimes Mac doesn't recognise my external hard drive e.g., going through terminal to unmount OR eject OR view files in read only mode (all just say the volume timed out).

Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files).

Mounting through disk utility, or using disk utility to repair/verify the disk (got this error message: Disk utility can't repair this disk.

#WD DRIVE UTILITIES MAC EXTERNAL WINDOWS#

Plugging the drive into a windows computer (nope).Plugging the external drive into another mac (did not work).How can I recover my files if I can't see the disk?.How can I prevent this from happening again?.Now, my mac won't recognize the hard drive. I hadn't disconnected it, and my settings are set so that the computer will NEVER go to sleep or shut down when the power supply was connected (which it was). I left, and when I came back the next morning, my computer warned me that I should properly eject my hard drive. Last night, I was exporting a 20-something GB Aperture library from my WD 2TB drive to another hard drive.

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