Hard Drive not mounting:
I haven't had this many issues with a new external hard drive ever.First when connected to a mac the hard drive doesn't let me eject and keeps saying it's being used.When I force eject or unplug it the hard drive not discovered null

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Hard Drive not mounting:
I haven't had this many issues with a new external hard drive ever.First when connected to a mac the hard drive doesn't let me eject and keeps saying it's being used.When I force eject or unplug it the hard drive not discovered null

Jb82 · Accepted Answer

Sounds like its need to be erased and formatted in the proper format. Most drives even if they say Mac compatible are formatted in ntfs or fat32 which dont work well or at all with macS

RobertJ · Answer

This is an issue with macOS. Often disabling spotlight will prevent the issue of Finder trying to us it. After force eject, the os is running checks the next time it is attached. Effectively you just have to wait 10-30. minutes and it will eventually mount.

Answered by RobertJ 5 years ago

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