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After more than an hour I came back and the drive showed up on my Mac again. When I try to verify the WD drive using disk utility I get 'Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Check Now and let it scan the whole drive fixing any errors it finds. Really at a loss and really need this resolved to get my project off of it. Time Machine has just reported being 'unable to complete backup' to my WD My Passport 1TB external drive. No idea if this had anything to do with it or not.
#Wd passport for mac unable to mount drive update#
I did update my computer to macOS Catalina version 10.15.2 after finishing the video. I have not had any luck with that at this time either. Someone else mentioned the same problems on another site and said they simply left their hard drive plugged in for a while and it eventually found it after 20 minutes or so. Today I moved it back to the other hard drive to see if that would fix anything and it has not. It could have been there before but I just noticed it last night and moved it to the trash. Thinking I was making progress, I rebooted the computer to see if that would help and it has never appeared again.Īlso, I have no idea if this is related but an alias for the drive appeared on my other external hard drive last night but that doesn't seem to do anything. However, when I tried to open anything from it, an error message would appear saying those files were being used else where on the computer and it wouldn't let me open them even though I could not tell that they were being used any where else. It did appear once when I also had another external hard drive plugged in. I have also tried to force mount it via the terminal and that did not work. I have tried restarting my laptop normally and restarting in safe mode multiple times and nothing has changed. When I try to mount the hard drive the error message says, "Could not mount "Drive 2". You can feel the drive "running" while it is plugged in, even without being able to access it. There is a native repair tool called First Aid in your Mac computers Disk Utility, which is able to analyze and repair basic hard drive problems especially with file systems and catalogs, extends, volume bit maps. When I go to Disk Utility it shows the hard drive but it is greyed out and will not mount and first aid will not run. If you cant mount the WD My Passport external hard drive for Mac manually, there should be some file system problems in this drive.
#Wd passport for mac unable to mount drive free#
I reconnected my external hard drive to my laptop but the hard drive does not show up. Wd Passport Unable To Mount Drive Free Up Space Disk Utility: Check out the two tips for using Disk Utility and 8 ways to free up space on your Mac. This morning my boss asked me to make a few changes to the video.
#Wd passport for mac unable to mount drive pro#
I finished editing a video last night, exported the video to my laptop (MacBook Pro 13 inch, 2017), disconnected everything, and went to bed. I mostly use it to edit videos but it is also the Time Machine backup for my laptop. This command above will report error at exit, but just ignore it.I have an 4tb WD Easystore external hard drive for work. With diskXsX replaced to whatever is appropriate for your case. Terminal option to disable journaling is: sudo diskutil disableJournal force /dev/diskXsX I'm surprised that Disk Utility was not able to detect this during Verify Disk (which reported that all is fine). Afterwards I enabled journaling again, all fine. So I disabled journaling and the mount then worked just fine. 21.42.42,000 kernel: hfs: late journal init: volume on disk2s2 is read-only and journal is dirty. Defective external desktop drive power supply Defective computer USB or Thunderbolt port Failing external drive Issue related to macOS update or the update. I used the USB-SD card adapter in the USB drive on the radio itself, and I only had the vehicle in RUN as the directions said (I didnt start Jeep for. USER=root COMMAND=/usr/sbin/diskutil mount readOnly /dev/disk2s2ģ.1.13.
After hours of trying various stuff, I finally found an answer, after closely examining system.log in Console. I just debugged a practically identical issue.
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