Is this correct? Should I just leave the harddrive untouched for a long time? I've heard about something called "fsck" in the Activity Monitor, and that may be the function that Macs use to fix the drive, but I was unable to find such function in the activity monitor. Red mechanical drives, as well as not having any moving parts for reduced. 1 Hi, I recently built my first system (in the nzxt h440) and during mounting my hard drive I accidently over-tightened one of the screws damaing the mounting hole (in the HDD). I've heard that harddrives that are unplugged incorrectly in the MAC may take a longer time to connect to the computer, due to the Mac trying to "fix" the drive. Like the competition, up to eight of these hard drives can be installed in a. I tried checking System Information and was able to see the drive connected via USB. It would appear for like a few seconds and then disappear for a while. Step 5: The hard drive's case can also trigger this issue. Step 4: You can either connect the external power source if the hard drive requires one. Step 3: The USB cable might be damaged, try changing that. I unplugged the external harddrive and plugged it back in and this time it's rarely showing up in Disk Utility. Step 2: You can connect the hard drive to a different port or any other Mac. I feel like I may have made the situation worse. I have tried running First Aid when the drive appeared in disk utility, but this problem of mounting and unmounting still occurred. I was also able to see it in Disk Utility. Fujitsu Diagnostic Tool is a free hard drive testing tool designed for Fujitsu hard drives. Hey everyone, I'm having a tough time trying to get my Mac to detect my external harddrive (WD 4TB Elements Harddrive).īefore, it would mount, then unmount, and after a while it would mount again and I could use the harddrive just fine.
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