Forcing OS X To Look For Drives

[bobber205]

How do I force OS X to look to see if there are any drives (like external drives) that it can connect to?

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It's connected to my computer via USB 2.0. I've tried restarting 5 times. Nothing helps. *angry*

WTF. I've had this drive for like 2 days and it's already crapped out?

 

[clevin]

1. make sure u turn on the switch on the back of the external harddrive.
2. if #1 is ok, then i have same questions, my 80G USB 2 was ok for 2 years, and just recently, OS can't seems to response to it, im wondering too.

 

[drummerbooker14]

i am in the same boat, my 300GB external no longer shows up, but it does in windows, and i can boot from it

 

[compuwar]

First I'd check to see if it's mounted, with the "mount" command from terminal, or by navigating to /Volumes in Finder. I've had volumes not show up in Finder's top left pane that were mounted.

 

[Superdrive]

You can also mount drives from the disk utility as well.

 

[bobber205]

You can also mount drives from the disk utility as well.

How?

 

[drummerbooker14]

go to disk utility and select mount at the top

but, it shows up in OS X as unformatted, while in windows it is FAT32

 

[drummerbooker14]

go to disk utility and select mount at the top

but, it shows up in OS X as unformatted, while in windows it is FAT32, along with an HFS partition that i can boot from

 

[MacVault]

I'm having a similar/same problem with an external 250GB Firewire (400) drive.... I've been looking for a keboard shortcut to tell the finder to rescan the firewire & usb ports for drives and mount any it finds. I use to do this with external SCSI drives way back in OS 9.x.

Disk Utility is suppose to be able to see any drives and mount them. I can re-mount my drive if it has not been ejected, but if it's been ejected already Disk Utility fails to see it.

What's the problem??? Bad FireWire chip perhaps???

 

[drummerbooker14]

ok, all of the sudden it started to work in osx. is this a bug froma security update or something? if it were a bug it would explain alot of things that have been happening

 

[synth3tik]

glad to hear your problem got fix. But in case any one wanted to know. From personal expereince. If a drive does not show up in disc utility you can also try software like Disk Warrior or Data Rescue X.

Apple Techs you Disk Warrior so that to me is a good indication that it works realy well. I have used it a bit, but found my data being saved my Data Rescue.