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Most of the time, when you connect an external hard drive to your Mac’s USB port, you soon see it mount on the desktop. Apple likes to ensure these are easy to find, so they also appear in the Finder in the left-hand column under Devices, since Mac’s treat them the same way as another computer.

However, sometimes, an external hard drive doesn't show up. It’s annoying, especially when you need to transfer something right then. And besides, there can be a risk that data on the external USB pen, hard, or flash drive is corrupt, which means you can’t transfer what you need between devices at all.

Corrupt data can be one reason your Mac won't recognize an external drive, but there are other reasons too. Let’s take a look why this is happening and how you can get an external drive to appear on your Mac and get recover data to access to your documents.

How to fix an external disk drive that won't show up on a Mac

Every DVD player (that includes the one in your computer) is sold being able to play only discs with the same region as the country it was sold in. That includes Macs too, sort of. On a new Mac, the DVD drive is automatically locked to the DVD region code that is first used. From then on, this can only be changed four more times.

Why an external disk drive is not showing up? There could be a few reasons why a USB flash drive isn’t making an appearance.

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Start with the basics:

1. Check whether the drive is properly plugged in. It sounds obvious, but since this relies on a wire - either a USB cable or HDMI cable - if it’s not connected properly then it won’t appear on your desktop.
2. Faulty cable. Assuming it’s plugged in correctly, not wobbly or loose, the cable could be at fault. Try connecting the same device with a different cable.
3. Damaged USB or flash drive port. It could be a hardware issue with the Mac. If you’ve got another port, try connecting the device to that one.
4. Reboot your Mac. Sometimes, if a USB disk won't boot, the cause is macOS issue. Hopefully, some data damage that can be fixed by restarting. Choose the Apple menu > Restart. Or press and hold the power button and, when a dialog box appears, click the Restart or press R. Restarting your Mac essentially clears your macOS’s memory and starts it up fresh.
5. Incorrectly formatted drive. Not every external drive is optimized for Macs. It could be that you are trying to connect something only fit to interact with Windows devices. If you’ve got a PC or laptop, it’s worth connecting and seeing if you can access the files through another device. The best way to look for an incorrectly formatted drive is to go to
   Apple (in the top toolbar menu) > About This Mac > Storage.
   See if the external drive shows up here. For more information, go to the same menu option, then select System Report.
6. Mac not formatted to display external drives on the desktop. It could be that your Mac already recognizes the device, but just isn’t showing its icon on the desktop screen. Even if that is the case, the drive will still appear in the left-hand column of the Finder menu under Devices. You should be able to access your drive that way, and, in the Finder menu under Preferences > General, you can check External Drives to ensure that from now on it shows up on your desktop too.
7. Reset NVRAM. To do this, shut down or restart your Mac, switch it back on and immediately press these four keys together for at least 20 seconds: Option, Command, P, and R. It should look as though your Mac has started again; if it has, release the keys when you hear the second startup chime. Hopefully, the hard drive has shown up now.
8. Check Apple’s Disk Utility to see if an external drive is showing up. Disk Utility is within System Preferences, or you can find it using Spotlight. If it is visible, then click the option to Mount, which should make it visible on the desktop and in the External Drives option in the Finder menu.

Unfortunately, if none of those options has worked and the external drive still isn’t visible, then it could have crashed, or be well and truly broken. But there might still be a way you can recover the data on the external drive.

How to show connected devices in Finder

1. Go to the Finder menu and select Preferences (Cmd+comma).
2. From General tab tick External disks to ensure that from now on it shows on the desktop.

In the Sidebar tab you can choose which folders and devices will be shown in the left-hand column of the Finder window.

How to add cloud storages to Finder

You can also mount cloud storage as local drive on your Mac. By connecting Google Drive, Dropbox, or Amazon to your computer, you get more space for securely accessing and sharing files. For your ease, add cloud drives to Finder with CloudMounter app, so that you keep them close at hand. You can read detailed instructions on managing cloud storage as local drives here.

Repair the failed external drives with First Aid

If your drive is having problems, you can try to fix them yourself with First Aid and therefore get access to your files. First Aid tool will check the disk for errors and then attempt a repair as needed. It helps to verify and repair a range of issues related to startup HD and external drive problems. If you are able to fix the hard drive or SSD in your Mac (or an external drive) using Disk Utility you will hopefully be able to recover your files.

To run Fist Aid on an external hard drive:

1. Open Disk Utility. You can searching for it using Spotlight Search or via Finder > Application > Utility
2. Check on your external hard drive, click the First Aid tab and select Run to start running diagnostics.

If First Aid successful in fixing errors, the external drive should be available to mount. If the utility unable to repair issues, your drive truly is broken or formatted using a file system that the Mac cannot read - in this way we suggest you follow the next steps to recover data from a damaged disk drive.

How to recover data from a crashed drive

Thankfully, there is an app for that. Disk Drill is the world’s premier data recovery software for Mac OS X. Powerful enough to retrieve long-lost, mistakenly deleted files from Macs, external hard drives and USB drives and camera cards.

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An easy way to recover lost files on an external hard drive

Providing you already have Disk Drill Pro version, which you can get automatically by downloading from Setapp:

1. Connect your drive to the Mac.
2. Quit all other applications on the Mac, especially those that may be trying to access the external drive (e.g. iPhoto, Words)
3. Launch Disk Drill.
4. Click on the external drive that you are trying to recover files from. If it has partitions, you will see all of them. If, however, you still don’t see any volume to the external drive then you may need to try some of the steps above again or read the Disk Drill Scanning FAQs.
5. To avoid the external drive being accessed during the recovery process, click Extras next to the drive or drive partition or file, then select Remount Volume As Read Only. A padlock will appear, protecting the drive during the process.
6. Now click Rebuild (or Recover) next to the file(s) you are trying to recover. Once the scan is finished - it may take some time if the files are large - a list of files will appeal.
7. Next, click Mount Found Items as Disk button on the bottom-left below the scan results.
8. Disk Drill “strongly suggest saving the files to a different drive than the one you are trying to recover files from. Saving to the same drive substantially lowers your chances of recovery.”
9. A drive icon will appear, which once you double click will give you the option to open the files as you would do before they were lost. Drag them to another location, such as your desktop or a folder on your Mac.
10. Open the files to ensure they have been recovered properly and safely eject the external drive.

Disk Drill does have other ways to recover lost files but assuming there aren’t complications, this method is the most effective. Disk Drill Pro recovery app is available from Setapp, along with dozens of Mac apps that will make your life easier. Never have to worry about a crashed or corrupted external drive again.

A few more tips on getting your files back

1. Macs and third-party apps that look after Macs, such as Disk Drill and iStat Menus come with a S.M.A.R.T. (also known as Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) status monitor. If a SMART check reports errors, then it could mean the hard drive is at risk of failing completely. Within Disk Utility and Disk Drill, there are several solutions for this: Repair Disk Permissions and Repair Disk. If neither work, it’s recommended that you backup all of the data from the disk, erase, then run a SMART check again. The external hard drive should show up as Verified.
2. Partitions can get lost within hard drives, temporarily hiding all of the information contained within. Disk Drill can help to identify and restore this information.
3. Within Disk Drill, you can restore data when a hard drive is damaged or add formatting, which is also something Disk Utility can help with.
4. CleanMyMac, another useful app available from Setapp, can help you identify external hard drive errors and repair them. It is an essential tool worth trying when you’re having external hard drive difficulties.

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Alternative ways to recover data from an external hard drive

Reset the System Management Controller (SMC) if your Mac shuts down when you plug in an external hard drive. Then use a different port to connect the external hard drive. If you’ve got a battery that you can’t remove:

• Shut down and unplug the power adapter
• Press Shift-Control-Option and the power button at the same time. Do this for 10 seconds
• Release all keys
• Plug the power adapter back in and switch your Mac back on

For Macs with removable batteries, you need to switch them off, remove the battery, then press and hold the power button for 5 seconds. After that, put the battery back in, plug in the power adapter and switch the power on again.

What’s your file format? One reason your Mac isn’t recognizing the hard drive is the file format. Windows uses NTFS file formats, while Macs, up until the introduction of Sierra, have used HFS+. Now, Apple has introduced the Apple File System (APFS) for newer operating systems. It is possible to format a hard drive so it can be read on Mac and Windows computers, providing you format using exFAT. However, if you’re having problems accessing the files and the issue is due to formatting, you will need to connect it to a device it can be read on, and then format the files correctly for the computer you are going to use it on next.

How to make Ext2/Ext3 drives readable on Mac

The common issue is Ext2- and Ext3-formatted drives are not readable on macOS. There are two ways to access such external drives on your Mac – via Linux OS or FUSE system. The easiest would be installing Linux to a secondary drive or virtual machine.

If you go with Linux installation, dual boot your Mac with Linux on another drive and use FAT32 as a transfer intermediary. If you don’t have a drive to install Linux to, use virtual machine as an interface for it. Transferring can be done the same way – with FAT32, or via network.

Another option for reading Ext2/Ext3 disks is mounting disk with Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE). Basically, it works as an extra interface enabling file system access via specially installed modules. Here’s how to mount drives with FUSE:

1. Install FUSE for macOS or MacFUSE as well as fuse-ext2 module.
2. Use the following Terminal command to enable Disk Utility’s debug menu and see all partitions: defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled 1
3. Attach your Ext2/Ext3 drive and locate the device name via Disk Utility.
4. In your user account, create a folder to be used as a mount point.
5. Use the following Terminal command to mount the drive as read-only: fuse-ext2 /dev/disk2s2 /Volumes/mountpoint
6. For write support, use the command: fuse-ext2 -o force /dev/disk2s2 /Volumes/mountpoint

And that’s not the only case where Terminal helps you access external drive.

Employ the handy all-powerful Terminal, which always comes forward with solutions for difficult problems. Especially if System Information does recognize the USB or hard drive, but continues to hide it from you, disconnect the drive and try to find it using the Terminal, which you can find in Applications > Utilities.

• Once in the Terminal, type in the command diskutil list
• A list with information about volumes and drives should appear
• Look for a section labelled /dev/disk_ (external, physical)
• Make a note of the whole line after the word disk
• Now put the following command into the Terminal diskutil info disk followed by the number or digits assigned to that disk
• Now you should see detailed information about the drive, therefore confirming that your Mac can and does recognize it
• Eject using the Terminal by entering the command diskutil eject disk followed by the number or digits assigned to that disk
• Physically remove the disk from you Mac
• Plug it back in and your Mac should recognize it

Console is also reliable when it comes to solving tricky problems, although it isn’t always that easy to use. You can find Console under Applications > Utilities > Console. Console shows if an external drive or any error is detected under the Errors and Faults tab. If no errors show up, then the problem is not caused by the device.

To sum up, there are lots of potential solutions for a Mac not reading an external hard drive. If we were to pick one, Disk Drill seems to be the most well-rounded, offering plenty of customizations and power in an easy-to-use interface. Disk Drill Pro recovery app is available via Setapp, along with 150+ Mac apps that strive to make your life much much easier. At the very least, you’ll never have to worry about a crashed or corrupted external drive ever again.

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2006 – A while back, I wrote an article about making your Mac’s DVD player region free. Much has changed with the introduction of Intel Macs, enough that an update is in order.

In the original article, I went over drive replacements and a utility, Region X, to reset the region counter in OS X, as well as a software alternative called VLC.

Those same solutions are all available with desktop Macs, and there is even a Universal Binary version of Region X, though the PowerPC version works fine under Rosetta.

The Intel Mac mini and iMac both use standard-sized drives, and while the Matsushita drives that Apple likes to supply are not flashable, Pioneer drives and others (check www.rpc1.org for your specific drive) can be flashed from RPC2 to RPC1 – region free.

The Mac Pro is even easier to modify, and with its extra optical drive bay, there are many options for those who don’t want to update firmware or replace what Apple supplied. In fact, if all you want is multiregion playback, you can hit eBay with $10 and buy an old 1x or 2x DVD-ROM drive from 1996 or so that is RPC1 by default, as all region coding was handled in software at that time.

So what do you do if you don’t want to flash firmware, or, worse yet, you’re using a portable for which there are no flashable drives available? (MacBook and MacBook Pro computers use 9.5mm drives, which at this point are only made by Matsushita, and thus are not upgradable.) You have two options – and while both work, neither are particularly elegant.

Use VLC

The first option is the same one I had recommended for PowerPC laptop owners who didn’t want to replace their drive, and that is to use VLC. VLC performs even better on an Intel Mac than it does on PowerPC, and just like on PowerPC, it doesn’t care about the region counter in OS X or whether your drive matches the disc you are trying to play.

The key to using VLC is to go into the system preferences CD/DVD pane and and deselect DVD Player as the default application for DVD movies. When you insert a DVD movie, it will simply mount on the desktop like any data disk would, and then you can manually launch VLC if your movie is from a foreign region.

For home region movies (US is region 1) you can still use DVD player, but the program will no longer launch automatically.

Many people like VLC, and it’s the simplest solution to the problem. VLC is not, however, a full-featured or particularly slick DVD player. When I had my MacBook, I had VLC installed, but I actually preferred method two, which I will describe next.

UPDATE 2006.09.18: It would seem that Matsushita has revised their firmware such that VLC is no longer a working solution on recently built ‘Books. My early-production MacBook worked fine with VLC, and its late-production replacements worked fine with Windows XP and DVDRegion+CSSFree, though to be honest I didn’t test VLC on the late production MacBook as I’d already moved to the Windows solution for foreign region playback.

The moral here is that you have to try it for yourself, and that depending on which Matsushita drive is in your Intel Mac, your mileage may vary.

The Windows solution bypasses the region code of the disk entirely, so for MacBook owners looking to watch foreign DVDs on their internal drive, this may be the only option.

Windows XP?!?

Intel Macs, in addition to their blazing speed, add one very significant feature that previous Macs never had: the ability to natively run Windows XP using Apple’s Boot Camp Beta. Windows XP, like Mac OS X, is a commercial operating system for which commercial applications are sold.

Just as Apple’s DVD Player is a very nice, integrated, and slick program for watching DVD movies, so too are the many commercial DVD programs available for Windows. The bundled Windows Media Player cannot play DVDs by default, but you can buy an add-on codec to enable it from the same company that makes WinDVD, my preferred Windows DVD software.

Other popular choices are PowerDVD and the same VLC software described above for OS X.

When I travel with a laptop, I generally don’t want to reboot my computer, as rebooting wastes precious battery runtime. If you’re travelling with an Intel Mac, however, I honestly think it’s worth the sacrifice. I compared WinDVD 7 and Apple’s DVD Player on a 2 GHz MacBook, and honestly, the Windows solution is better even without the region issue.

High-end applications like WinDVD and PowerDVD offer a lot of functionality that Apple’s DVD Player lacks, including controls to adjust color outside of the OS settings, sound settings, and terrific utilities to capture still and short clips to video and image files on your hard drive.

Apple’s DVD Player expressly blocks OS X’s screen capture capability, where the commercial DVD players give you terrific controls to pull content from a movie. Bookmarking scenes and enhanced navigation features are other benefits to using a commercial DVD player.

When I travel I tend to use my laptop more for games and movies during flight than for work (unless I’m forced), so the Boot Camp solution is a good option for those looking more for entertainment than productivity while sitting in coach.

Worth the Price

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The reason I preferred the Windows solution for DVD playback is that VLC is a freeware program, and, like much freeware,it just doesn’t have the polish of a good commercial application. Of course, the advantage is that it’s free, and this being Low End Mac, that is important.

Personally, however, I prefer to pay for quality and stability than to save some money and sacrifice either stability or ease of use.

Making Windows Region-Free

Now if you want to try the Windows solution, we aren’t in the clear yet. You will need an application called DVDRegion+CSSFree or one of its equivalents. This little program cost me $19.95 about five years ago and has been upgraded many times (for free) since then.

This is a one-trick-pony that is sorely needed in an OS X version. Simply put, when you insert a DVD movie into your drive, this program reads it before the OS and then tells the OS that it’s region 1 (or whatever region you select). Your computer, Windows XP, and your drive don’t know any better and happily play your foreign DVD as though it was a regular Region 1 disk.

This is by far the most elegant approach to defeating region coding, and in five years I’ve never had a disk or drive that this program couldn’t deal with.

Who knows, if enough of us write to the company asking for an OS X version, perhaps we’ll be rewarded with our own native OS X version. This is the kind of utility that Macs are famous for, something that adds a needed function at little cost and with no penalties in ease of use. In short, it’s very Mac-like.

Until then, we’re stuck with VLC or booting into Windows XP.

Parallels Is Not Good for DVDs

One word of warning about the Windows solution, and that is that I wouldn’t recommend trying it under Parallels or any other emulation. So long as OS X has control over your drive, VLC is the only safe bet – and even with VLC there have been reports of drives changing region.

Remember, your drive can only change region a limited number of times, and once it’s done, it’s done. Getting Apple or anyone else to reset the hardware counter is very expensive, if they’ll do it at all, and that worry is another reason why I went with the Windows and DVDRegion+CSSFree solution when I had my MacBook.

Of course, the good news here is that you can try VLC, and if it never changes your drive’s region, you’re in luck (most people fall into this category). If it does change your region, chances are unless you’ve played with regions before, your Mac has three more switches, so you won’t be stuck and can just switch it back manually and then try another solution.

If you have a Windows box lying around you can play with the Windows software described above (WinDVD and PowerDVD both have free trials available, as does DVDRegion+CSSFree), so you can try before you buy.

One More Solution

One final option for those not looking for ultimate portability would be to buy an external DVD drive and run it from your FireWire, USB 2.0, PC Card, or Express Card connector. You can get a flashable drive or just set the external drive to the region you use less often, then with Region X you can reset OS X’s region counter and switch freely between your internal drive for your home region and your external drive for the second region.

Back in the day, I used a similar solution with my Lombard PowerBook, carrying two DVD ROM drives, one set to region 1 and the other to region 2. Using Region, the OS 9 version of Region X, I had the same functionality. Again some drives are old enough (WallStreet owners should check this out) to just be RPC1, and with Region or Region X you are good to go.

There you have it, an Intel-oriented look at multiregion DVD playback on the Mac.

I’ll add a final option for those with a lot of time to tinker, and that is a copy solution (I use Toast Titanium) and a CSS ripper (I prefer Mac The Ripper). Using my ancient G4 Power Mac and its RPC1 drive, I could make Region 1 copies of my Region 2 DVDs, and did this back in 2003 when I moved from a region-free ThinkPad T20 to my first 12″ PowerBook.

Which option works best for you depends on how often you play foreign region DVDs, and where you play them. For movie rentals while traveling, an internal solution like VLC or Windows software is the best option. For playing the foreign-region movies in your own collection, an external or second internal DVD-ROM drive makes a great, low-cost option.

For the most integrated option, swapping in a an RPC1-flashed replacement for your RPC2 internal drive gives you the best of all worlds, though at the highest cost – and unavailable for the MacBook and MacBook Pro. Finally, if you do have an RPC1 drive and still want to watch movies in Windows, just as you need Region X to maintain the region counter of OS X, you will need DVD Genie to do the same function in Windows XP.

Whichever approach you take, the situation is a lot better than it was three years ago when your only option for region free on an Apple laptop was VLC, which back in the 1 GHz PowerPC days provided jittery playback in addition to its unstable interface and frequent crashes.

Today you have a variety of options, from an Intel-optimized and greatly improved VLC to some outstanding software players under Windows XP and Boot Camp. While we don’t yet have a region-bypass utility for OS X like we do for Windows, it’s still undoubtedly the best we’ve ever had it for multiregion movie playback on a portable Mac.

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