Oct 15, 2015 WD Elements Not Mounting But Visible in Disk Utility - Help! WD External Drives. External Drives for Mac. October 15, 2015, 1:29am #1. Try Quick fixes when WD hard drive is not recognized by Mac. A proper connection is the most basic. As you have backed up the photos on the windows machine, you should try to use disk utility to fix your drive. There might be a volume mounting error or a format error, which can be fixed by using a function in disk utility called 'first aid'. On your Mac, spotlight search for disk utility. It should show up. External hard drive not mounting Mac. After upgrading from OS X Sierra to OS X High Sierra on my MacBook Air, I can no longer mount and read my external hard drive. During the upgrade, I converted my MacBook hard drive to APFS. My external drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended. Is the data on my external drive inaccessible now that I have APFS. May 03, 2012 I have seen a WD external (a 2.5' one not a full size 3.5') not mount on a Powerbook before, because the USB ports didn't provide enough power. I have not seen that happen on a Macbook or MBP.
Hi everyone,
I’ve googled this extensively but not really worked out what to do. Basically my 2 year old WD Elements 1TB Drive is not being recognised when I plug it into my Macbook Pro. It tells me it is not readable and gives me the option to ignore it, eject it or initialize it. I tried ignoring it, but then it doesn’t show up in Finder.
It does however show up in Disk Utility.
I’ve tried replacing the power supply and the USB cable, but this has not helped - same problem. I’ve also tried connecting it to Windows PCs, but it doesn’t show up there either.
I have moved my entire iMovie library onto this drive alongwith other important things, so I am really desperate to get to the contents of it.
I am struggling to know the best way to go about recovering the files on there, and I don’t have the budget to take it to a data recovery place.
Can anybody please offer any instructions to help??
Any info really, truly, greatefully received…
Thanks
Wd Elements Setup
Frank