External Hard Drives not Mounting after Yosemite Upgrade

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but after hours of searching for an answer as to why my external hard drive did not show up on my desktop after upgrading to Yosemite, I clicked on the Finder, clicked on Preferences and under the General tab there's a section that says, "Show these items on the desktop," where I simply checked "External Drives." All is well now!

It worked for me as well.. awesome 🙂

Struggled with this since updating to Yosemite but finally found a solution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-2NCRcylK0 If the video is no longer available search 'how to enable NTFS write support on Mac OS X Yosemite for free'. Hope this helps.

THANK YOU THANK YOU! Downloaded for free, ran the program, and my WD Passport works like a charm. Thank you SO much.

I have a problem with loading CDs into the CD slot since upgrading to Yosemite a few days ago.

any suggestions?

I cannot get to install the Kext Utility download cause Apple somehow blocks it . I get this message:

“Kext Utility” can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer. Your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the Mac App Store and identified developers.

anybody knows how to work around this??

thanks in advance!

“Kext Utility” can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer. Your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the Mac App Store and identified developers.

go to System Preferences... Security...

there should be a message saying the app was blocked

and you can click "run anyway"

(note: technically you should have googled this, because it is basic knowledge that is off-topic for this thread)

what to do next?

I had the same issue (DVD drive not mounting in Yosemite - new Macbook well!) The Kext Utility didn't help me. What did was an EXTERNAL USB HUB.

YES!! i can't believe it was that easy. after all the other troubleshooting, just popping it into a hub was all i needed to do. thanks!!

Thankyou. Worked for me.

Kext helped me too. try this 200kb software

Hi I'm getting issues with a disk I was able to access now I don't, maybe the power failed while copying and got this

/dev/disk2

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: *0 B disk2

I can see it at disk utility app but no commands active

Thanks!!! The Kext Utility worked instantly!!! :O)