Aarony from Vanc

Q: Mounted external hard drive internally.

I recently bought a "hard drive docking station" to access a old 512gb hard drive previously installed on my last windows laptop and try to boot from this crap using parallels desktop. Everything was as planned at the beginning, I put the hard drive into the station and plugged all the cables in(Usb and AC), my macbook discovered the device and mounted it as an internal hard drive but not external... This is so weird and what can I do to fix this?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1), Bluetooth

Posted on Dec 24, 2015 10:41 PM

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  • by chroot,

    chroot chroot Dec 25, 2015 2:06 AM in response to Aarony from Vanc
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    Dec 25, 2015 2:06 AM in response to Aarony from Vanc

    Might be an issue with the drive itself and not your computer since the current partition map was created while the drive was physically installed internally.  You can try running First Aid using Disk Utility on the disk (not the partition.)  Since the drive was used with Windows it might have an MBR partition map so this won't work.  In order to correct this the entire drive may have to be erased, including all partitions and the partition table.  Not sure how exactly this would be causing an issue though, the fact that it's being recognized as an internal drive should be benign.

     

    Perhaps someone else could shed more light on the situation.