What causes this particular error and what can I do to mount this drive or retrieve the data from it?
iMac Line (2012 and Later)
I ran into this issue with a Western Digital 2TB drive... I had seen some irreperable disk errors and was ironically, attempting to back the drive up so I could reformat it... so, I was panicking because I've got some important data on the drive and was starting to research data recovery tools. After messing around and doing some research, I discovered the system was trying to run a filesystem check on it and was getting hung up.
I opened a terminal window and entered the following commands
$ ps -ef | grep fsck
$ sudo kill [pid from above]
BAM! Disk mounted just like that.
At this point, I opened Disk Utility and ran First Aid... which ironically unmounted the drive and then got hung up again... DUH! So had to repeat the process. At this point, with the drive mounted, I backed up the drive and reformatted it.
Hope this helps.
I dont want to pay another app. Thanks!
My drive is also Seagate! Probably it's a Seagate thing? I tried to leave it over night- it didn't mount ( other drives I have are WDs and they mount ok.
As unsettling as this is, it's good to know it's not just me having this issue.. hopefully at some point a fix can be found!
-Cleo
Apple must fix this and soon or the future of OSX will be compromised.
That saved my bacon!! Thanks very much, worked like a charm
Thank you !
No way. My 1TB and 2TB WD USB drives with exFAT mount flawlessly in Catalina unless I forget to safely eject them, that’s always the case.
doesnt work.
has anyone found solution yet? im having the same problem since updating
A mi me esta pasando lo mismo, mi unidad de disco no se monta desde que instalé Catalina. Yo tengo WD passport
¿ A alguien le ha funcionado volver a mojave para al menos hacer una copia de seguridad?
My WD drives are effected by this issue. I can run first aid on them, but i'm not able to mount them.
sorry, upper left hand portion of the disk utility screen.
Are you sure that command is with an ‘s’? Seems to a ‘u’ is more appropiate.
First, thank you for the response. Ok, did that and now I get the message:
I checked the external drive and now I cannot save to it. Any suggestions instead of backing up and reformatting?
😂
An external disk refuses to mount, com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error -119930868.
