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reptarwilleatu

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i have a WD Elements 4 TB drive. i noticed today that it wasn’t showing up so i checked Disk Utility and it shows the drive and a APFS container underneath, but it won’t mount. i’ll attach screenshots below. it was encrypted and ironically the newest of all the drives i use. i’m currently running Spinrite on it in VirtualBox to see if that can correct it. in case that doesn’t work, does anyone have any suggestions or tips i could try? it’s one of my largest drives and i’m not sure if i have another one that could hold everything that’s on it so that i could erase it and move everything back over if i had to
 

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