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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 was able to solve the problem by entering the activity monitor and forcing the finder to close
Thanks.
I REALLY MEAN IT!
attempted to mount external hard drive-error0
It really help me. Do no remove hard disk directly. If you directly remove then mac will unmount the hard disk for system. Goto disk utility and click mount or first aid option.
enter error -119930868
Worked instantly!
@Dusty
You described my issue to a T! I am having exactly the same problem since upgrading to Big Sur. Did you ever get a viable solution to fixing the problem?
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Thanks - that worked. I had to open the disk tab first to find fsck.hsl but when I did, that worked.
Brilliant. I'm glad it worked. Thanks for letting me know.
I'm glad I could help. I too was relieved when I could access all my information.
Had the same thing happen on an external SSD, after the OS randomly ejected it for no reason whatsoever, which now brings the count of drives affected to FIVE.
So much for: "It just works."
i don't know how, but this really work.
I’ve since allowed the disk check to run its course (took about 30 mins for 1TB disk) now works without issues.
An external disk refuses to mount, com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error -119930868.
