Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

External USB drive not MOUNTING....HELP!

jgw1283

jgw1283

macrumors regular
Original poster
Aug 6, 2007
153
2
Tempe, AZ
I have a WD 250gb external USB hard drive that has about 70 gigs of stuff on it and I've had it for about a year. I haven't used it in a few months and now it wont mount. I used disk utility and it wont allow me to verify or repair disk permissions, they are grayed out. I used Disk Warrior and rebuilt the directory and it says the drive is NOT visible on the desktop, but all the files are still there so I know this isn't a case of the drive being erased or failing. I have had mounting problems on other external drives before but this time it's really annoying.

Does anyone know anything I can do to get this thing mounted? Thanks much!
 
I am having exactly the same problem with the same drive! I have not used in about a month and now the disk won't mount. The disk spins up when I plug the usb into my MacBook Pro, but then nothing happens. I get no recognition of the drive under disk utility. Are you using Time Machine?
 
hi, same problem man,

and got a western digital as ewelll...****, i think is beacause it isnt formated with os journaled, but it must be possible to repair its permissions on windows or something , or with the terminal aplication, if someone would just plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,,,,hey u genious come come out where ever u are....:D
 
I agree that FAT32 formatting may be the reason that USB drives attached to a Time Capsule won’t mount in OS X. I doubt that the brand makes any difference. I have a FAT formatted 2 gig Toshiba USB flash drive that won’t mount in OS X but my VMware Fusion XP installation found it and uses it like a charm.

I hadn’t thought about trying to repair the permissions because I only use that flash drive as a receptacle for my Qicken2008 for Windows backup files. Thus, I don’t really need it in OS X.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back