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LaCie external hardrive not appearing on Mac

Hi,

I ordered a LaCie rugged hardrive to run unreal engine. After i installed UE on the drive I ejected it and unplugged it, but when I plugged it in the next day it didn’t show up and in my menu bar toolkit said there were no volumes. I have run first aid and tried to mount it but it still isn’t working.

can anyone help?

Posted on Sep 3, 2021 7:11 AM

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Posted on Sep 3, 2021 9:16 AM

dhani176 wrote:

It’s more that the LaCie doesn’t come up on my mac even though it’s plugged in


Not sure why the you mention UE...


Verify

Finder>Preferences>General>Desktop> Hard Disk



How is the external HD formatted?

if NTFS partition map you will need third party software to r/w


ex.

tuxera

Paragon

there are others


Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac

https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/erase-and-reformat-a-storage-device-dskutl14079/20.0/mac/11.0


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Sep 3, 2021 9:16 AM in response to dhani176

dhani176 wrote:

It’s more that the LaCie doesn’t come up on my mac even though it’s plugged in


Not sure why the you mention UE...


Verify

Finder>Preferences>General>Desktop> Hard Disk



How is the external HD formatted?

if NTFS partition map you will need third party software to r/w


ex.

tuxera

Paragon

there are others


Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac

https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/erase-and-reformat-a-storage-device-dskutl14079/20.0/mac/11.0


Sep 3, 2021 8:38 AM in response to dhani176

dhani176 wrote:

Hi,
I ordered a LaCie rugged hardrive to run unreal engine. After i installed UE on the drive I ejected it and unplugged it, but when I plugged it in the next day it didn’t show up and in my menu bar toolkit said there were no volumes. I have run first aid and tried to mount it but it still isn’t working.
can anyone help?


?


https://mycodecentral.com/installing-unreal-engine-for-mac/

Sep 3, 2021 10:55 AM in response to dhani176

dhani176 wrote:
I have run first aid and tried to mount it but it still isn’t working.
Ok thanks I’ll try that, it’s just weird because it was working one day then the next it didn’t show ip


Drives can fail at anytime....



https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/305071/force-mounting-an-external-disk-that-is-not-recognized

LaCie external hardrive not appearing on Mac

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