My macbookpro stopped recognizing my Seagate external hard drive

[jlburke]

Hello,



I accidentally unplugged my 2TB Seagate external drive, and when I pugged it back on, my Mac was still recognizing it, however, when I tried to access its contents, the folders appeared empty, so I tried to eject the drive, but the icon on the desktop was gone, I unplugged it, restarted my Mac, and it did not recognize the external drive. Then I repeated the stunt at lest three times. I thought the drive was ruined, so I got a laptop that runs Ubuntu, and Ubuntu recognizes and displays the contents correctly, which makes me think the external drive is fine. Any ideas on what to do? I mean my Mac won't even acknowledge the drive at all, otherwise I would think about re-formatting. Any ideas, I'd much appreciate it. Thank you.

 

[T5BRICK]

Have you tried a different known good drive that you can use to make sure your USB port is still working?

 

[maflynn]

Did you try plugging it into a different USB port?

As mentioned if you have access to another external drive, get that and plug it in as well. Try to narrow down where the problem actually exists.

 

[jlburke]

Solved it

Hello guys,

Thank you very much for your help. I have solved the issue. What I did was open Disk Utility, I noticed the system acknowledged the ext. drive, and proceeded to repair it. It did not repair it, however, and so then I just gave it another shot by pressing the "Unmount" button, I proceeded to unplug the drive, plugged it back, and voila, it worked again.

Thanks again, I appreciate it.

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I'm sorry but this is the first time I post something to these forums. Do I have to classify this question as "solved"? I cannot find an option to do so. Please let me know if I'm not following protocol here.

Thanks!