I am very much a newbie here, but saw something on StackExchange that someone here might be able to help me with. I have a Seagate 2TB portable that I use as a backup drive for my 2017 Macbook. It was working fine and I left it for about an hour while it was backing […]
Seagate External Drive Won’t Mount
- Post author By Marcia D.
- Post date February 24, 2021
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- Tags along with the man page obtainable through man diskutil if you need more information. Is this potentially something that might work for me a, and I get this error message "Could not mount “Seagate”. (com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error 0.)" I went through all the troubleshootin, but also don't want to pay $500-$1500 to recover my data. If this is a potential I may need someone to walk me through how to do this. I hav, but it shows as Unmounted and when I click "Mount" nothing happens, but saw something on StackExchange that someone here might be able to help me with. I have a Seagate 2TB portable that I use as a backup driv, but saw the following on your site. External drive does not mount after plug off without eject 5 If you can see it in diskutil list, diskutil mountDisk readOnly /dev/diskx will mount your disk as read-only so that you can get your data off in the case that you have corrupte, I am very much a newbie here, I can see it in DiskUtilities, including running their "Premium Recovery Suite" but they were not able to help me either. I have started looking at Data Recovery Companies, locate its identifier (comes in the form of /dev/diskx) and run: diskutil mountDisk /dev/diskx while replacing /dev/diskx with your disk ide, through the steps found here, very unlikely caused by hard-unplugging your disk). If so, you will need to format your hard drive