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Toshiba external hard drive isn't detected anymore

PLEASE HELP!!!

I formatted my brand new Toshiba Canvio external hard drive for my Macbook pro, transferred some movies etc to it, was working fine ...After plugging it back in a few days later, my laptop isn't detecting it anymore. I tried it a few more times, I reset my computer and updated it. I checked in the disk utility and it detects it there but Im a bit of a noob at this stuff, so I don't know what else to and its super frustrating

Would really appreciate some help

Posted on Jul 14, 2014 3:44 AM

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Jul 14, 2014 3:55 AM in response to Darryltron

Just what does Disk Utility say about the disk?

You can attach a screenshot of what Disk Utility shows.

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Darryltron Author

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Jul 14, 2014 4:07 AM in response to lllaass

Okay here it is

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Jul 14, 2014 4:27 AM in response to Darryltron

It say it is formatted with NTSF which OSX can ready without some work or a third-party program

Do you have a thrid-party program like

http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/

installed on this Mac?

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Jul 14, 2014 5:41 AM in response to lllaass

No I don't have this program

Should I get it??

Thankyou for your help 🙂

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Jul 14, 2014 7:00 AM in response to Darryltron

Try this before purchasing anything.

http://www.cnet.com/news/how-to-manually-enable-ntfs-read-and-write-in-os-x/

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