So I had this issue a while back and it has only just re occurred as I need my external hard drive again. So I use this drive throughout the week and have done this past week and all seemed to be fine, however today I plugged my WD External hard drive in to my Mac Air and it does not show up, even though this light is blinking indicating it is working? I also looked at a few other suggestion and decided to repair the disk due to it being greyed out on disk utility, no luck. Any ideas, I cant afford to wipe it either, Ive got so much on this stupid hard drive, and i have solved this problem in the past? Thanks.
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External hard drive not registering on desktop!!!
- Thread starter JaydosMyMados
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Does it show up in finder?
It will only show up on the desktop if that is enabled in:
Finder->Settings->General
If it does not show up in finder, you can check diskutility and try to make the drive active (toolbar), if it is listed.
It will only show up on the desktop if that is enabled in:
Finder->Settings->General
If it does not show up in finder, you can check diskutility and try to make the drive active (toolbar), if it is listed.
Ive tried restarting, nothing.
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And ive checked my finder settings and it should show but still nothing
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And ive checked my finder settings and it should show but still nothing
Ive tried restarting, nothing.
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And ive checked my finder settings and it should show but still nothing
Could be your cable went bad. I didn't think this was really a thing until it happened to me a couple years ago. Sounds like very similar symptoms. Try a different cable.