- External Hard Drive For Mac Not Mounting Usb
- External Hard Drive For Mac Not Mounting Mount
- External Hard Drive For Mac Not Mounting Software
Drive speed is measured in revolutions per minute (rpm), based on how fast the drive can spin. Most portable hard drives run at 5400 rpm. This reduced power draw helps preserve the battery life of the Mac you plug the drive into. Desktop external hard drives usually run at 7200 rpm to offer all the speed they can. I recently bought a 4 TB naked (no enclosure) external hard drive that I mount via a Newer Tech dock (the ones where you insert the naked drive like bread in a toaster) and is connected to my MacBook pro via FireWire 800. About a month later I wanted to use the drive and it would not mount. Disk Utility reports that it is 'Not Mounted'.
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merlyn wrote:I'm not sure what you mean by 'take'. If you can write a file then all would seem to be well.
Take ownership I meant. My backup program has been stalling and returning errors about permissions ever since this issue appeared. I cannot do any backups right now because of this. I've checked the drive for errors and it's apparently ok. I've reformatted it too. Something happened around the time I used Photorec and I think it's changed something in my config somewhere. This is why I want to take ownership of these drives so I can see if my backups work again..
External Hard Drive For Mac Not Mounting Mount
External Hard Drive For Mac Not Mounting Software
Many, many questions left. What filesystem is on the disk? How is it mounted? Shall the backup program run as root and if not, was it accidently run as root?