I purchased an 8TB flash drive to use with my iMac ( 2017 21" ) and it does not show on my desktop. It is recognized by the iMac because it shows as an USB drive on my System Info and also shows on my TechTool Pro app. What can I do to make it show on desktop so that I can use it? Thanks !
It is a default setting to keep the Mac desktop "Zen-like." You can change it.
Make sure the computer shows "Finder" in the upper left corner, then do "Preferences":
In the resulting window, are four checkboxes. Marked as I have done, they shouls give the desktop your want:
Pezheadpaul wrote:
• 8TB flash drive
I'm very sorry to say, but it sounds like you may have been sold a fraudulent product. An 8TB flash drive is an impossible product to currently produce.
What usually happens is a seller has an ad for a very large capacity device for a good price, such as an 8TB flash drive, and it does indeed appear to be an 8TB flash drive in software due to the tampered componets. However, it can only really hold ~50GB of data, and it will corrupt everything it does store.
So if you storage device does indeed look like this:
It cannot be 8TB, and you should replace it with a quality external hard disk, such as one from the Apple Store.
I'm sorry about this.
Jack
After following Allan Jones' suggestions launch Disk Utility and see if it sees the drive. If it does erase it and reformat to HFS+ or APFS so it will be fully compatible with your Mac.
My computer was already set up just like that, so I'll try the next suggestion. Thank You.
Thank you so much. Your suggestion worked and I was able to mount this drive. So now I have 8TB of extra space to dump my photos, etc.
Did you buy an 8 TB USB flash drive, or an external hard disk?
Flash Drive not showing on iMac desktop
