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I Can"t format my Lacie external drive or have it shown on my desk top, 2T drive shows only 144.12 PB. Tried all options including terminal solution didn't work. Just want my external drive fresh again and shown on my desktop so I can use time Machine . Just want to reformat it and get it ready. Please look images attached and thank you so. much. Might god protect you from any pandemic. love
simomonster wrote:
I Can"t format my Lacie external drive or have it shown on my desk top, 2T drive shows only 144.12 PB. Tried all options including terminal solution didn't work. Just want my external drive fresh again and shown on my desktop so I can use time Machine . Just want to reformat it and get it ready.
The partition table is corrupt, if you can not format, then drive has failed or the enclosure controler has failed or the cable is bad.
How to erase a disk for Mac
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208496
https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/repair-a-storage-device-dskutl1040/mac
simomonster wrote:
I Can"t format my Lacie external drive or have it shown on my desk top, 2T drive shows only 144.12 PB. Tried all options including terminal solution didn't work. Just want my external drive fresh again and shown on my desktop so I can use time Machine . Just want to reformat it and get it ready.
The partition table is corrupt, if you can not format, then drive has failed or the enclosure controler has failed or the cable is bad.
How to erase a disk for Mac
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208496
https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/repair-a-storage-device-dskutl1040/mac
FYI, your Terminal commands all have mistakes in them.
To destroy the current partition information on the Lacie Drive "disk2" (shown in your first screenshot of Disk Utility where the Lacie drive is selected) you can use the following command. Just make sure that "disk2" is still the drive ID for the Lacie drive. Substitute the correct drive ID in place of "disk2".
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m count=1000
If this command completes successfully, then you should be able to use Disk Utility to properly erase the drive (assuming the drive is good).
Be extremely careful in making sure you have the correct drive ID or you could destroy important data with this command.
shall I do each at a time sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m count=1000
how to enter them. shall I go
like this :
sudo dd if=/dev/zero enter. then
of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m count=1000
Just enter the whole single line and press "Return" at the end to execute the command. It belongs all on one line as written. Just make sure you double-check the drive identifier first as the drive identifier can change each time you connect the drive.
Thanks! is there any alternative? drive was showing a few days on my desktop. Used different cable but still same issue . the drive is on now but don't know if it is permanently corrupt!!
Thank you. will try that and get back to you. hope it will work
Thank you sir. will try that
formating external drive