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 don't know how, but this really work.
Thanks. This works. Good job. How did you find it out?
Did this and the disc is back! Thank you!!
I checked the list of services but I did not find the "fsk" process in the disk window of the , even when performing a search.
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Thanks for this, you saved my ***.
this worked for me
Same issue, saw this post about Tuxera, and it was the only thing that worked. And it worked straight away! Thank you.
Thank you @ph290! This worked like a charm :-)
I need to access my to my external hard drive.
An external disk refuses to mount, com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error -119930868. Using a rugged mini LaCie and Catalina on Mac
I totally agree everything worked fine until the latest update.
I don’t have the ability to reformat my hard drive and I can’t afford to loose everything either.
Thank you SO much! It worked for me!! 🙏🏼😎
If your drive has an activity indicator, you could probably notice that it's busy while connected, but not able to mount.
This means that an fsck command is run on it, checking for errors. This is not a specific Catalina issue. Just be patient or kill fsck, say, from 'top' console command
In my case, it took a lot of time. I finally ended up letting my external drive run all night and it was mounted in the morning. I don't know how long it actually took to check a 2TB drive, but after ejecting it and connecting it to a new iMac with Catalina, Migration Assistant is doing its thing. Patience is the key.
I will try that... I looked for the fsck_ext someone suggested in the Activity Monitor but it is not there. I can see the HD, however, it is not mounting. I dont know what Apple did, Catalina was not helping me in a bad day. Very annoyed but was experienced enough to notice it was the update of iOS and not an issue with my HD.
An external disk refuses to mount, com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error -119930868.
