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Ejected external drive, how do I get it back

YMark

YMark

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Nov 7, 2008
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I've been running an external drive connected to my iMac forever. A few minutes ago, I accidentally ejected it instead of my SDCard.

How the hell do I get it back? I've pulled the USB cable and reinserted thinking that Finder would pick it back up. No luck.

If I try and "connect" to it thru Finder, I get an error message telling me to access it locally. Any clues?

Thanks
 
How did you eject it? Did you click the EJECT icon in Finder's Sidebar or did you drag it off the Sidebar?
Or did you drag the HDD icon from the Desktop onto the TRASH icon in the Dock?
Does the HDD show up in Disk Utility, where you also can mount devices?
 
I just pulled the USB cable (which I had done before) and plugged it into my Macbook Air. The Air saw it right away.

Then I plugged it back into my iMac and now it shows up in Finder. Not sure what the hell is up with that, but thanks to everyone for the suggestions.
 
simsaladimbamba said:
That is not drastic and it should take less than three minutes, excluding the shut down and start up time. I did an SMC reset when I has similar problems and it helped in these cases.
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Well that was my next step. Thanks again for the help.
 
ljonesj said:
Have you tried unpluging the usb cable on the drive and pluging it back in
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It worked via this method:

YMark said:
I just pulled the USB cable (which I had done before) and plugged it into my Macbook Air. The Air saw it right away.

Then I plugged it back into my iMac and now it shows up in Finder. Not sure what the hell is up with that, but thanks to everyone for the suggestions.
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