Ext. Drive will not mount however it shows in Disk Utility?

[IrisCaddis]

Ext. Drive will not mount however it shows in Disk Utility?

Back story: Been using a Lacie backup on my MBPro with Time Machine. Decided to use the ext. drive to back up my old G3 yosemite running OS 10.3. It would not show on desktop. Decided to pass on that. Went back to my new MBPro, plugged it in and states disk utility cannot repair. "disk1s3" See images. Help! I have stored data on this drive and it was working great.
What did I do ; x

 

[satcomer]

Do other hard drives (even your internal hard drive) show up on your desktop?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Have you tried an SMC reset yet? It sometimes helped me.
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)

Btw, the images don't show up yet.

How to attach an image to your MR post.​

 

[IrisCaddis]

Do other hard drives (even your internal hard drive) show up on your desktop?

Yes, the MBPro drive works, and I have another ext. drive and that runs as well.

 

[IrisCaddis]

Have you tried an SMC reset yet? It sometimes helped me.
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)


Btw, the images don't show up yet.

How to attach an image to your MR post.​

I will look into that as soon as I have a chance. Not so sure if that will solve the issue ??? Again, the apple help page is long so I need a few min. thanks.

 

[IrisCaddis]

I will look into that as soon as I have a chance. Not so sure if that will solve the issue ??? Again, the apple help page is long so I need a few min. thanks.

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[-tWv-]

Looks like your drive may be failing.. I had this same problem with a 500gb Western Digital external hard drive about a year ago. It just didn't mount all of the sudden and then quit working all-together. You still should try to reformat the drive to see if that fixes the problem though.

If you need any of the files on the external drive you are going to have to use a utility such as Data Rescue 3 or something similar and then try to reformat the drive. If not, go ahead and click erase and try to reformat it and see if it works.

 

[IrisCaddis]

Looks like your drive may be failing.. I had this same problem with a 500gb Western Digital external hard drive about a year ago. It just didn't mount all of the sudden and then quit working all-together. You still should try to reformat the drive to see if that fixes the problem though.

If you need any of the files on the external drive you are going to have to use a utility such as Data Rescue 3 or something similar and then try to reformat the drive. If not, go ahead and click erase and try to reformat it and see if it works.

TouchDown, do those utilities such as Data Rescue 3 and Disk Warrior actually work? thanks for the help

 

[simsaladimbamba]

TouchDown, do those utilities such as Data Rescue 3 and Disk Warrior actually work? thanks for the help

Data Rescue worked for me several times, it even took one week to scan an HDD and I could recover most of it.

 

[cube]

DiskWarrior worked for me where Disk Utility failed.

 

[-tWv-]

TouchDown, do those utilities such as Data Rescue 3 and Disk Warrior actually work? thanks for the help

Yes, I recently had an issue where I deleted a partition off my hard drive and was able to get everything back off of it even though it was labeled as "free space." I would highly recommend Data Rescue 3. It might even be able to repair your drive even though disk utility couldn't.