MacBook Air :: External Hard Drive Not Showing On Desktop
May 1, 2012i have an external hard drive and when i plug that into the usb port, it does NOT show up as an icon on desktop.
View 5 Replies
ADVERTISEMENT
MacBook Pro :: External Hard Drive Is Not Showing Up On My Desktop
Mar 2, 2012I've just brought a new external Hard drive for my mac book pro and when I put the usb cable into the laptop nothing showed up on the desktop. I waited a few minutes but nothing happen and then I turned off the computer and did it again.
View 2 Replies View RelatedMacBook Pro :: External WD 320GB Hard Drive Isn't Showing Up On Finder
Feb 29, 2012My external WD 320GB hard drive wont show up on Finder when I connect it up. Ive been having this problem ever since I pulled it out without ejecting it - I know thats bad but my macbook froze and I had no choice.Â
Now my external hard drive wont show up on Finder, I even tried disk utility and I was able to verify the disk & then repair it, but its like I cant use the hard drive anymore. Every time I try to add files to it or remove files my laptop freezes and I cant do anything.Â
Its got to the point where all I want to do now is get all my files off this external hard drive somewhow, Is there a way to get my files off this hard drive before its too late if isnt already so.Â
Info:
MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008)
MacBook Pro :: OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5) USB External Hard Drive Not Showing Up
Aug 20, 2014I have a Hitachi Touro USB 3.0 1TB external hard drive that has always worked on my Macbook. Formatted in FAT so it would work on both my PC and Mac. I can't remember exactly when it stopped working, but I think I had to reset my mac once as it stopped responding and the HDD was plugged in. After that it stopped showing up in Finder, but still appears in Disk Utility. It also shows up in Storage under "About This Mac". Â I've tried resetting my computer, ran Apple Hardware Test, and have tested the hard drive on other computers and it works fine. Just doesn't show up in Finder on my mac!!
Info:
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), 13" Late 2012 model
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: External Drive Not Showing Up On Desktop?
Mar 28, 2012I have an external hard drive (2T Newertech ministack). We had a power outage the other day. Even though the drive is on it no longer appears on the desktop. I went to Disk Utility and see if it could be repaired but the drive is not even showing up there. Does this mean the ministack was fried by the outage or is there another way I can save it? And yes, the finder preferences are on for external drives to show up on desktop.
Info:
Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X :: Harddrive Not Showing Up On Desktop / Unable To Mount Hard Drive
Feb 8, 2009I'm new to this forum, but need help with my external harddrives (WD Pasport 250GB). I can find it in my disk utility, but not on my desktop. I had WD send me a new drive, but now I do not know how to transfer the info from the old drive. Its not a dead drive- its obviously turned on and connected, but I can't mount it to my desktop. Any advice??
I have a iBook G4 (if that matters).
Software :: External Hard Drive Not Showing Up
Aug 22, 2009I have a Western Digital external hard drive. I just noticed that the icon was not showing up on my desktop. This could have been the case for awhile, I don't use it that often just as storage. I have restarted, unplugged and replugged many ways. I can hear it running and the light is on. It does not show up in the system profiler, I have reset the PRAM. I have not as of yet got new cables to try as this was discovered last night. Is there anything else I can try until I get new cables? Or what does this sound like to you. Also, what are the chances that the information on my drive is gone? This is the only copy I have for some work that I do.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMacBook :: Can Delete The Things On My Desktop After Putting Them On My External Hard Drive
Oct 31, 2009I know this is an elementary question, but I do not want to delete all of my pictures, music, etc after I put them on my external hard drive and come to find out that I can never get them back.
Will someone please reassure me that once they are transferred, they are still accessible if needed?
OS X :: Files Transferred To External Hard Drive Not Showing Up
Mar 12, 2010We have a 320gb external hard drive formatted in FAT32 so both the macbook and our windows computer could use the drive. We copied 5 gigs of music to the hard drive to view on the Windows computer. The computer recognizes the drive and shows that 5 gigs are being used but I cant see any of the files.
View 1 Replies View RelatedOS X :: External Hard Drive Not Showing - System Preference
Mar 20, 2009I have a Toshiba 160 GB USB external HDD (no power supply required) that I use simply as a backup for some Windows programs when I am using my virtual machine. It required a double USB cable and its icon showed on both the Windows and iMAC screen until a day or so ago. It is a functioning unit when I put it on a separate PC. I have not been able to correct the problem and in viewing some of the forum items I keep seeing suggestions to view the 'System Preferences --> general' - I do not see a 'general' nor any reference in the 'apple' that refers to hard drives (external or internal).
View 3 Replies View RelatedHardware :: USB External Hard Drive Not Showing As AirDisk
Apr 18, 2009A bit of a PITA to get the external HD to show as an AirDisk. (AEBS)
View 1 Replies View RelatedOS X :: External Hard Drive Stopped Showing Files
Sep 23, 2009Recently I just converted my old PC's 250gb Hard drive into an external drive. In the beginning everything worked fine. Though I could only read the files from it on my mac, I was fine with that because there was so much old music and pictures that I wanted to get off of it. There happened to be one particular picture that I couldn't find searching through the HDD with my mac, so I thought maybe I would be able to find if I looked for it through a windows system.
So I then plugged the external into my Windows laptop. After failing to find the picture on the PC, I plugged the hard drive back into my mac, but for some reason it's not showing the files. The hard drive is being found, but when i click on them in the finder no files show! The drive is not erased because the capacity and amount free is still the same. And to put the icing on the cake when I plugged the drive back into my PC a message comes up that says "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error".
OS X :: Won't Show Up External Hard Drive / Showing Plug In
Nov 1, 2009i just bought an external hard drive enclosure for a new hard drive but it doesn't show up when i plug it into my macbook. the enclosure lights up with a blue status light when i plug in the USB but it never shows in disk utility and finder. leopard is installed on the external hard drive (im trying to clone my macbook's hd). i'm thinking its the enclosure but are there any steps i can take to ensure i'm doing everything correctly? the external hard drive is working, it was installed in my macbook yesterday but i took it out because time machine restoring fails also, i plugged the external into my time capsule. the blue status light turns on meaning its plugged in but i only see my time capsule in the network
View 6 Replies View RelatedOS X :: External Hard Drive Showing Inaccurate Free Space
Jul 18, 2010I have a 1TB external LaCie hard drive. Presently, it is loaded with about 300GBs of space so I should have around 650GBs left. However, it is only showing about 240GBs left. I think the problem is that I used to use this hard drive for Time Machine backups, I deleted them via the recycle bin. I checked the recycle bin, nothing there. I verified the disk, everything ok, I repaired it as well. I even erased the empty space.
View 8 Replies View RelatedOS X Mountain Lion :: WD My Passport External Hard Drive Is Not Showing Up In Finder
Aug 28, 2014So a couple of days ago it was fine and today it does not show up in finder, or utility diskÂ
I am about to upgrade to Mavericks now
OS X V10.7 Lion :: External Hard Drive Not On Desktop?
Mar 25, 2012I had a black screen of death moment and since then, I've had a few weird anomalies with my iMac. I ran disk repair while logged in, and it told me there was a problem. I restarted in restore mode, and when I repaired the drive, it found no problems. I don't believe it.Â
1. My external hard drives do not appear on the desktop. They are mounted, and I can see them when I open the finder and the disk utility, but they won't show up on the desktop like they used to. I have played with finder preferences shutting the option to see them off and on, but this doesn't change anything. Very strnage.Â
2. iTunes completely whacked out. It "restored" itself by magic. Now all the Date Added dates are March 23rd. All of my podcasts disappeared, and all my settings were reset. I have no idea what else I lost. I want to restore from a back up, but I don't know how to do just my iTunes.
Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7), 2.7 i5 quad
OS X :: How To Move .mbox From Desktop To External Hard Drive
Feb 24, 2010I moved mail from an exchange server to my computer to get around using to much space at work. I then dragged that folder to my desktop which created a .mbox file. When I try to move the .mbox file from my desktop to an external hard drive it wont move. a grey circle with an exclamation point appears. I tried doing it with Entourage close as well and got the same issue. Does anyone know the proper way for me to move the .mbox file from the desktop to the external hard drive?
View 7 Replies View RelatedHardware :: External Hard Drive Not Mounting On Desktop
Dec 12, 2007We can see an external hard drive in disk utilities but not on desktop it's Mounting hard drive S.M.A.R.T status is functioning and its a disaster.
View 1 Replies View RelatedSoftware :: External Hard Drive Disappeared From Desktop
Feb 7, 2009My Lacie external drive has 'disappeared' from the desktop. Have I disabled something I shouldn't have?
View 1 Replies View RelatedPower Mac G5 :: External Hard Drive Fails To Show On Desktop?
Dec 19, 2007My Maxtor 500 external hard drive has suddenly stopped appearing on my desktop. My other external drives appear. I've tried hooking the drive to my MacBook Pro with the same results. The drive however, seems 'active'. The light on the front of the drive does its usual flashing routine when plugged into a new machine. I've never had a crashed drive before. Does it sound like this is what has happened, or does anyone have a clue as to what I should do?
Information:
G5
Mac OS X (10.5.1)
MacBook Pro
OS X Mavericks :: IMac Desktop Will Not Recognize External Hard Drive But Mac Air Does
Dec 10, 2014I have one hard drive that is readable and writeable on my mac desktop but read only on my mac air. I am trying to transfer all files from a couple external hard drives onto a new larger back up drive so I do not want to lose any information by reformatting.Â
Info:
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
OS X :: External Hard Disc Drive With The Firefox Logo Appears On Desktop?
Jul 19, 2009I've got OSX on a MacBook Pro and a bunch of programs like Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator etc. and I'd like them to be accessible in my dock like iPhoto or iMovie.
How do I do this?
BTW, currently, I have Firefox in the dock but when I click on it a box pops up and I have to again click on the Firefox logo for the app to actually open. Then something that looks like an external hard drive with the Firefox logo appears on my Desktop. Why is this happening?
Hardware :: Desktop / Portable External Hard Drive And Time Machine With AEX
Aug 7, 2010Would a USB bus-powered portable external hard drive (Like the WD Passport) be slower at backing up than an AC powered desktop external hard drive? I've got a desktop external hard drive that I'm using for Time Machine backups over WiFi connected to an airport extreme, but it's dieing and I'd like to replace it. Preferably I'd like to get a 1gb portable drive so I can use it for both backing up and travelling - however if it will result in slower speeds in transferring data then I'll just get a desktop drive.
View 1 Replies View RelatedSoftware :: Mounted External Hard Drive Not Shown On Desktop / Finder
Jun 9, 2008I have a Macbook (blackbook) running OS X 10.5.3 and a 160GB Firelite HD that connects via USB. It use to show up and run just find but lately it hasn't been showing up on the desktop or in Finder. However, it shows up in Disk Utility, which shows that nothing is wrong with it. How do I get it to show back up on the desktop/finder?
View 2 Replies View RelatedOS X :: WD External HDD Not Showing / Icon Missing From Desktop
Jun 22, 2009i woke up this morning and my western digital external HDD icon is not showing up on the desktop. I currently use this as a time machine and it has been working for about a year. This has happened before and just a simple re-plug of the usb does the trick, but i have been working on this for hours and for some reason it is not showing up. I have unplugged everything and re plugged them back in and nothing is working. i have checked the disk utility and the disk utility recognizes it. but i still dont know why it doesn't have an icon. i am running a repair disk on the external HDD now and it and it has been "repairing" for about 30 min now. i have tried to backup but it is not working either.
MacBook Pro :: Hard Drive Not Showing Up?
Aug 30, 2014I have a MBP with a dead hard drive that I am trying to resurrect. The MBP was working one minute then it just froze up. On reboot I got the flashing folder with question mark meaning it couldn't find the OS. I tried to access the drive remotely from target mode but it wasn't listed. I pulled the drive and hooked it up to an SATA to USB cable and tried to access from other systems but again it wasn't displayed.
View 6 Replies View RelatedMacBook Pro :: Hard Drive Not Showing?
Aug 29, 2014i have a 1,5 tb usb 3.0 external hard drive that doesnt show up in finder or desktop, i dont know if it is the cable or why it appears and disappears. what should i do?
Info:
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
MacBook :: 350GB Hard Drive Isn't Showing Up
Feb 14, 2009I just put in a 350gb hard drive into my macbook. Installed the OS and everything is working, except I'm only getting 297gb out of the 350 gb I bought?What could cause me to loose over 50 gb of HD space? and can I somehow regain those lost gb's
View 5 Replies View RelatedMacBook Pro :: Cloning Entire Hard Drive To An External Hard Drive
Mar 31, 2012Recently I bought 2 identical WD Scorpio Blue 1TB hard drives for my macbook pro 13 inch 2010. My aim is to replace the internal hard drive with one of the two I just purchased and use it as my system drive with Lion, Windows and Data partitions. And for the other hard drive I want to use it as a full disk back up for the internal drive (now 1TB hard drive). After I was done with setting up both windows and mac and data transfer, when I booedt into the recovery partition from the internal drive to clone the drive to the external drive, the disk utility gave me this error (Could not validate source - error 254). I also tried using Carbon Copy Cloner but it only could clone partitions, not the entire drive. Yesterday I downloaded a copy of Clonezilla. It worked fine until it had to clone an exFAT partition (my data partition). The exFAT partition appeared as 'RAW' partition in clonezilla. As a result, the whole partition appeared to be full and clonezilla had to copy every single blocks of data in that partition and the estimated time remaining was about 30 hours. So clonezilla is out too. Just want to ask if there is any program/application (bootable or not) which allows can do a full disk clone to an external hard drive.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMacBook Pro :: Desktop Hard Drive Won't Mount
Jan 24, 2010My LaCie BigDisc HD won't mount on the desktop of my MacBook Pro. Is there some other place I can find and open the icons, or is there another procedure to follow to correct this problem?
View 1 Replies View Related