Hard Drive Wont Mount? | How to Fix a Corrupted Drive on Mac!
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- Опубликовано: 21 фев 2020
- In this Video, I share what I had to do to fix my external hard drive to mount properly. If your hard drive is not being able to read and has errors, this could help out. Please feel free to comment if you need help.
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Richard, I want to send you my sincerest thank you for this video. This is the first time I have EVER commented on a RUclips video, and this tutorial is now the reason why. My external hard drive suddenly stopped mounting on my laptop (and a backup laptop too). My whole life from 2016 to now was on it, and the thought of losing it all sent me into a depressed tailspin. So much so that it was literally making me nauseous.
I tried downloading recovery software, which was scanning the hard drive for hours, yet found nothing. I was at a complete loss for what to do so searched on RUclips and found this video. Following your tutorial fixed the problem completely and I could not be happier. You do not know how grateful I am for you posting this.
Thank you very much. I hope you have a great rest of 2021.
Glad you got it sorted. You should ALWAYS have a backup of your hard drives. Especially stuff that we care about and never want to loose. It sucks because you have to buy 2 hard drives for the use of one but it is always best to have a mirror of your hard drives
Richard. I love you. I have called so many experts, Apple 2x, etc, plus a million other things and your video got my drive to mount . PRAISE BE TO YOU. I CANNOT THANK YOU ENUF. I have been working on this for days / weeks. the part that ends at 4:29 was the thing that finally did it. I kept doing all til then, then that worked OMG. I LOVE YOU!!
It worked. It actually worked! I've just managed to recover nearly four years of photography. I could cry i'm so happy. Thank you very much brother.
Just here to thank you for saving me from my music career now. Thought I lost all the projects on the hard drive. Thank youuuuuuu🙏🏿
That’s incredible. I’ve had such stress for the past hour or so. This worked and the drive mounted. This is what happens when you stupidly unmount an external drive improperly. Thanks!!
Thank you! I looked at other videos and you were the only one that mentioned to put the exact path (exp: disk2) I didn’t know what to choose in order to restore and it clicked when you stated this.I thought I lost my HD.Bless you!❤️
Awesome save! I have been worried sick i lost my hard drive content, the mount worked! Thank you thank you!!
Commenting to say you saved me from a heart attack. Another reminder to back my footage up!
It worked--you saved me! Critical work stuff was on there and was not accessible. You are a hero-----thank you!
Oh my gosh...you just saved me 2TB worth of data. Thank you so much. I tried the first steps and they didn't work. I then stuck around and the last step saved me. Thank you so much for sharing this.
I was skeptical at first, especially with the comments seeming that it's too good to be true. My hard drive stopped mounting two days ago but wow, after doing this it's all mounted and I can access all of my files now!! Thank you so much Richard :)
Thank you soooooooo much! When I first saw this video I thought oh God I am not a coder but I tried it and it worked! Thank you x a million! You just saved my butt!
Thank you richard!! i had years of pictures that you just helped me save!! love u bye
It worked! Thank you
I can't believe it worked thank you so much
omg thank you so much for this video -- hard drives not mounting are unbelievably stressful!
U ARE LEGEND. IT WORKS. LACIE DRIVES.
I have used this twice now. LaCie drive stopped mounting when my mac book pro died unexpectedly.
for lacie drives you must input ExFAT instead of hfs.
thank u again
Dude!!!! Saved the day! Ur a tech genius! Dropped that sub! Keep it up man! From RUclipsr to RUclipsr, thank you!
- Skye
Thanks so much. Worked a treat!
Very helpful, it worked! Thank you!
You saved my night! Thanks a bunch for giving us the hack to mount the unrecognized HDD after all. Helped instantly. Much love and stay confident everybody. Richard's Mac terminal hack helps!
thanks bro! worked like a charm!!
Thank you so much, worked perfectly!
i thought all my footage are lost forever, been searching for solution in weeks..cool super life saver bro be safe and all the best..
This guy is awesome. Just followed step by step through the whole video and boom! Working!
Thanks a lot.. you save my external hard drive.. !!!
Thanks! It worked for me :)
Absolute life saver thank you so much
Thank you very very much Richard. It worked
That's so cool man it worked thanks :)
You sir, have saved my life!
Man, you saved my life. Thank you!
I really need some help. After the first bit when I type in disk until list it doesn't let me put any more commands? Why is that? Like the bit where it should say macbook pro:~....
thanks- it help me to open to get aces,, but it can fix the problem in the HDmm super thanks !!!!
Thank you kind sir, saved my life!
what is the password
I have to say, this has saved me not once, but TWICE now when my hard drive wasn’t mounting and I was worried it had failed. Thank you so much!
second time using this fix, gotta see what's making it happen and back my shit up before this stops working!
It worked ! Thank you my dear :)
Hey man! I have A raid zero setup of 2 drives that Im looking to access the media. What can I type into terminal to get my OSX to read the files rather then ask me to initialize! thanks
Good Job Richard!! You helped me a ton.
Worked perfectly. Thank you
dude thank you for saving the day
Thank you so much!
Help needed!
My friend has an iMac 2013 and after a power failure it doesn’t boot, after running disk utility it reports the HDD is unformatted and smart error.
I can’t run First Aid even if I select the disc, the disc also report a size of 4.14GB, actual size is 1TB.
Tried to install Homebrew and testdisk from the Terminal to recover the partition but it throws up a syntax error.
Can I run testdisk from a USB drive? Or anything else I can do to recover the partition?
Sir, you just fixed my 20 years old dead iMac with a code!
THANK YOU
OMG! It workssss!!! Thank you soooooo muccch!!!!
Hi, will you're method work if my external HDD is formatted as "ExFat" ?
Hi Richard! I tried to run the first aid part, but got a bit lost after that... do you think you would be able to help me mount the hard drive?
What about for an APFS (Case-sensitive, Encrypted)?
thnx bro -- ur a life saver !!
You are the man!
Hi Richard, I followed your instructions and I got "unable to verify this whole disk" it happened when I got to the partitions part. Any thoughts?
Thanks, it worked for me!
New Delhi
hi, thank you for your video but I was not able to mount the disk after following your steps. is there anything I could do?
Thank you very much!!
Hey Richard, a little late to the party after the first step I get a GPT partitioning scheme is required? what does that mean exactly ? Also my PC will open the hard drive but my mac will not, it opens and then says loading on the mac. I would transfer everything but that will take months. any help?
when i do disk verify my harddrive says guide table required what do i do? is my harddrive gone? but sometimes it shows all my data in finder. The issue i am facing is my hard drive is detecting but its not loading the folder and sometimes it does load but it is extremely slow
Thanks heaps bro!
Dude thanks so much. This has worked twice now but I'm thinking I need to ditch that drive.
super!! exelente
i’m having an issue with the Internal hard drive not being able to read from the Disk utility via Recovery mode for a Time Machine Restore. Any help or suggestions with that?
once I complete sudo mount and it ask for password. Mine has a Key and it will not allow for me to type or to move forward
Just write you’re passcode, it won’t echo but the terminal will process it as if u had written something
Thanks man. I tried this but no joy. The same external hard drive works on my old mac but wont show up on the new mac. Tried the force mount via terminal but no success. Any suggestions greatly appreciated!!
Might be the partition type different and if thats the case, you will need to use old mac os, transfer the data from ext hdd to any other external or internet (depends on data) move it and then you will need to format that external drive in exFAT and then transfer it back to it, then it should work for both mac os and windows as well.
Thank you 🙏🏾
Works every time!
Hi Richard, the video is really helpful. However, I have a question. when I follow the steps my computer says "No such file or directory"
still having issues with this 1. could you let mw know what i would need to do in order to get the mount point to mount.
my error is
repairin file system
volume is already unmounted
performing fsck_exfat-y-x/dev/disk1s1
checking volume
checking main boot regionthe voluime could not be verified completely
file system check exit code is 1
restoring the original state found as unmounted
file system verify or repair failed
operation failed...
would would be process for this..?
Hey bro thank you for helping, I have the exact same issue, that I cannot repair the disk because it is not able tu unmount, and the disk only allows me to read information but not write, when i try to write it says error -50. is there a way to fix this? thank you
help needed
THANK YOU KING
Hi Richard I have a Q: after following all steps and last thing I put was sudo fsck_HFS /dev/disk3s2 = it came up saying "Can't open /dev/rdisk3s2: Resource busy" ---- any ideas on how to fix this?
mine says the same! did you get anywhere after this?
@@harrisonauld8806 i tried to follow everything but i haven’t yet been able to recover. I called a few places but the prices was a few hundred and said they “might be able” to get it back- sometimes when i plug it in i get it to work and then i transfer as much data as i can but like the whole drive is full unfortunately so just taking it little by little :/ I don’t know anything about the codes and stuff in Terminal or Disk Utility (i tried it but didn’t seem to work for me unless i didn’t do everything right) sending you good luck!! & if you figure anything out let me know haha
@@LouisaKristina haha okay, i’ll keep trying. sad thing is, this is a hard drive that i had payed 1800 dollars for because my hard drive i had before this did a similar thing so i paid 1800 dollars to get it fixed but only got like 20% of my stuff back and he gave it to me on this hard drive which is now also not working. i’ve only had this hard drive for 2 months. i have no luck lol.
Richard, if my drive is showing up as "Disk 6" do I use that code instead of the "Disk 2" ?
You saved my life
Hi! What can I do if I have corupted partition with bootcamp (windows os) on drive ?
After running - sudo fsck_HFS /dev/disk4s2 - a result was "Invalid node structure" and "Invalid record count". Any suggestion on how to proceed? Thanks
hey! I have a laptop managed by my company. i've been trying to do the steps but still shows cant read disk.
. Is it because there might be some restrictions??
Hi Richard, thanks for the video.
I am having trouble to mount my internal drive for my macbook. I tried the command sudo fsck_APFS but after entering my pw, it said: No such file or directory , any suggestions?
Sudo Fsck_AFPS /dev/disk0s2
Hello sir, thank you for the video. My problem is that I have a mojave ssd 1TB drive that I thought I could just plug into a new mac. But while it shows up in the disk utility as greyed out, it does work with the original macbook pro. It seems as if it has been altered from HFS journaled to APFS and won't mount. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
If they have data stored already on that drive and it switched formats, you may have lost the data. If you never had anything but trying to mount the drive. Go format the drive back to HFS. RUclips should have videos if you need help. It is short but write detailed. Please let me know if you need help with anything else.
Deuxyeux21, were you able to fix your drive?
Thanks
Thank you.
Hi Richard! When I typed diskutil verifyDisk disk2 in the Terminal, it said " Error starting partition map verification for disk2: This operation is restricted by Sandbox; check your settings in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Files and Folders (-69464)" However, when I followed the instruction and go to the Files and Folders, I don't know what to do? Could you please kindly advise what could I do?
same
Hi, RIchard. How about it says Microsoft Data My Book 22? What should I write if its not HFS?
What do I do to fix an invalid B-tree node size?
at the sudo fsck_HFS ... command the output says:
...
**Checking journaled HFS Plus volume.
Invalid B-tree node size
(3,0)
**the volume could not be verified completely
thank you!!!
I may need your help. I was trying to update my OS to Big Sur and the install failed mid install. I had to take the computer into Apple. Instead of re-install the OS and erasing my drive, they just put a new OS on a new drive. I have the old drive but it won't mount. They ran tests and showed the drive works fine. I tried disk utility both ways and the drive fails to mount. It sees the drive. A data recovery software recognizes all of the files, but upon recovery they are corrupted (pictures, movies, music). Ther terminal says unable to verify this whole disk: A GUID Partitiion Table partitioning scheme is required. I'm not erasing the drive. Need a solution.
Is there any way to restore a erased apple ssd? It's not showing up on disk utility or recovery Disk utility?
okay so what my hard drive is ExFat do I put that in place of HSF??
Yes, that is the type of format for the drive. HFS is the standard Apple format for read and writing.
Very cool man, can I somehow do this when I’m in disk utility before startup? My startup seems to not work 😕
Hi Richard, thank you for your video.
I have an APFS SSD and I have been able to get the end as shown your video (using APFS instead of HFS). It also shows that the external ssd has been mounted properly as shown in your video.
However, the drive still does not show up on the Finder.
did you find any resolution for it? I'm still looking for it
I’m looking also looking for a solution to that
Same here. for the first command "fsck_hfs -rc -d /dev/disk3s2" it returned "The volume could not be verified completely." for the second command it shows that the external ssd has been mounted properly as shown in Richard's video.
However, the drive still does not show up on the Finder or in Disc utilities.
Thanks for the help, (it didn't work for me, I'm gonna try again in recovery and reformat my drive), but I jsut wanted to suggest saying what you write in terminal rather than saying what you are not writing example- you said: disk utility but you wrote: diskutil
thank you!! it works for me! mine is Microsoft Basic data so I change HFS to exfat and it mounted. so happy🙋🙋thanks!!
Hi, how do you change from Microsoft Basic Data to HSF to ExFat? Really need your help!!!
wowwww thannnnnk you for this tip. That exfat did the trick as well. thank you!! @pijayo
Hi Richard. Have tried the terminal commands you suggest. Am getting _Unable to verify this whole disk: a GUID Partition Table Partitioning Scheme is Required._
Then tried verifying _part_ of the disk: disk2s1, but then it says “A whole disk must be specified”. 🙄 🥴
Aww, unfortunately, none of these methods worked for me :(
I wasnt able to mount since I'm dealing with a second internal disk I tried your way but it didnt mounted it ¿Do you know the comand to mount from an internal second device? Thanks a lot for your help Richard
will this work with the new AFPS format
Hi, thank you for this video what if on the step with the sudo fsck_ part this disk reads as 2: Microsoft Basic Data 2.0 TB disk2s2
not the HFS command
Same issue
could you fix them?
@@anshgtrivedi5172 do you got an answer?
Same here No HFS but Microsoft Basic Data??
use exfat then HSF
"The volume could not be verified completely" 😥
Hi , HFS is not working for my FAT 32. Please Help Me.
Thank U
Sir, what to do for Microsoft Basic Data!?
Hey there
When I try to sudo mount fsck it keep bringing up the msg that “resource busy”?
cant mount my external drive did as you had explained in the video but it seems to not mount., please help
I am still not able to get SSD mounted, any suggestions.