![]() If none of the above options work, you should remove the drive from its external enclosure and test the drive on its own. Voila!! My external hard drives are back in finder and desktop. Remove and Test the Bare Drive Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drive. Uninstalled the third party Paragon NTFS application(Possibly supplied with the Seagate Dashboard Software). If you are going to assign a external scratch drive in Photoshop Mac, it must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) or it will not show up in the. Found "Paragon NTFS" in the system preferences (my external hard drives are formatted with ntfs). ![]() Then checked for other unknown application related to hard drive. ![]() He doubted the Seagate dashboard.īelow are the troubleshooting steps that resolved the issue:Ĭhecked the same external seagate 1TB on another mac thin air system and the harddrive was working fine.Ĭhecked a different seagate external hard drive on the Mac pro notebook and the external drive is not showing up in the finder or on desktop.Ĭhecked in Finder preferences>General>and ensured that "external disks" is checked under (show these items on the desktop.Ĭhecked the disk utility on the MacBook Pro and the external drive is detected however it is not mounted.Īs per customer input suspected could be some hard drive application that is causing, removed the seagate dashboard application however, still same. Select the Format of the drive volume with the following settings. Right-click the space that says Unallocated, select New Simple Volume, and then follow the on-screen prompts. MBR for hard drives with a capacity of less than 2 TB. Method 6: Ask for help from professionals. Select the partition style: GPT for hard drives with a capacity larger than 2 TB. Method 5: Check bad sectors for the not accessible external hard drive. Method 4: Format the inaccessible drive to NTFS/FAT32 in Disk Management. Method 2: Fix driver issues on the external HDD. Locate the USB drive with the issue and right-click on it. Method 1: Troubleshoot permission problem. Click on Device Manager and expand the Disk Drives. Connect your USB drive to the PC and right-click on This PC and select Manage. ![]() In this case, you may need to update the USB drive. He did say it could be due some software corruption because he clicked something and probably something got installed. If something is wrong with the USB drive, it may not show up in File Explorer. My bro did some clicking after that he says the Seagate 1 TB Backup Plus external hard drive was showing up in finder and desktop on his MacBook Pro.
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