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I had to do an internet recovery and place fresh OS on My Mac Pro 2019, I have a storage drive as well as an 8TB internal drive for more storage which has a Time Machine back up on it. After the procedure I only see the main hard drive small storage drive but I do not see the 8TB drive on the desktop. See Disk Ultility image TOSHIBA is the drive
here is an example form My Mac Pro:
the X12-240 is an internal SSD drive with 10.12 High Sierra installed, and does NOT have APFS, so no container-disk. I created this so that if I encountered software that can not cope with APFS, I could still have a place to store something. Note: It has NEVER been needed for this purpose.
that is a very unusual presentation, and could indicate that one or more of your drives is not set up in the way disk Utility expects.
Typically, the PHYSICAL device is shown at the left side of the left column, with a tiny line-drawing resembling the outline of a drive.
just below that, a tiny line-drawing of a Box is used to represent the Container-disk inside the physical device. The main purpose of the container-disk it to hide the APFS data structures form older MacOS, so that they don't try to "fix" them.
Next is typically found an APFS Volume. This may have a tiny line-drawing resembling the outline of a drive. In at least some versions of macOS, this is indistinguishable from the Physical drive drawing.
Some Volumes just seem to appear, not under any Physical device. If Disk Utility can't figure out where they came from, it may just show the drawing of a Volume, without placing it under a Physical device or under a Container-disk. That is what I would expect might happen to the second or third Volume on a multi-Volume drive.
so what to do:
go down the list.
select each item in turn. note what and where it is.
physical devices should show their manufacturer-name and their innate size.
container-disks are not doing anything for YOU, they just protect their APFS Volumes.
Volumes are what Finder can see, if MOUNTED.
¿are there any Volumes that remain un-Mounted? if yes, you have found you missing space.
I don't see nothing unmounted It's like it disappeared, it was always on the desktop before doing an internet recovery as I wiped the hard drive clean and did a fresh install. had nothing to do with the internal 8TB drive that disappeared. Just contacted the mfg Promise (Pegasus J2i 8TB Internal drive)
Promise?
Their External drives got their Drivers pulled out from under them when some version of MacOS upgrades came through. The Drivers USED to be packaged with MacOS. I seem to remember something about how their Extensions were implemented was not OK.
Check Driver versions carefully. You may have to manually download and Install some newer Drivers to get access. Promise can provide the details.
Did that still don't see pic below is what was there BackUps of mac Pro Green Icon BEFORE clean install
Here are screenshots
use the little 'View' Icon to 'View All devices'
new screenshot, please
how about a screenshot that just shows the basic Disk Utility pane, not covered up by "storage".
I have this exact same problem. Any answers on this?
After Internet recovery cannot see disk
