Hi there,
So after I updated to the new OS X El Capitan, my Seagate Backup Plus hard drive won't show up in the finder. I have checked the disk utility and it shows up there, but it won't let me mount. Does anyone have a solution to this? Or do I have to wait till the next OS update till I can get it to work?
Cheers,
Chanel
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Hi Eric,
Thanks for trying to help, so I tried using the terminal to mount it but all I got was :
Volume on disk4 failed to mount; if it has a partitioning scheme, use "diskutil mountDisk"
If the volume is damaged, try the "readOnly" option
and I can't even read only.
As you can see, it won't let me mount or partition either?
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Hi Eric,
Thanks for trying to help, so I tried using the terminal to mount it but all I got was :
Volume on disk4 failed to mount; if it has a partitioning scheme, use "diskutil mountDisk"
If the volume is damaged, try the "readOnly" option
and I can't even read only.
As you can see, it won't let me mount or partition either?
Last login: Mon Oct 5 01:02:47 on ttys000
halls-10-40-253-194:~ Chanel$ diskutil mount force /dev/disk2
Usage: diskutil mount [readOnly] [-mountPoint Path] DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode
Mount will mount the volume in the "standard" place (/Volumes), unless
an optional mount point is specified.
halls-10-40-253-194:~ Chanel$ diskutil verifyDisk /dev/disk2
Unable to verify this whole disk: A GUID Partition Table (GPT) partitioning scheme is required (-69773)
halls-10-40-253-194:~ Chanel$ diskutil mountDisk /dev/disk2
One or more volume(s) failed to mount
halls-10-40-253-194:~ Chanel$
halls-10-40-253-194:~ Chanel$
As you can see above I have tried several ways. Any other ideas, or do you suggest I try and revert back to Yosemite?
Thanks!
Hey not sure if this will work for you but I had a problem with read and write permissions on my seagate hdd after the El Capitan Update.
I just had to re-install the NTFS driver to get my hdd working again.
You can download it from here.. http://www.seagate.com/au/en/support/downloads/item/ntfs-driver-for-mac-os-maste r-dl/
Hope this helps.
Thank you so much! I was talking to apple support for hours and they couldn't come up with anything as simple as this!
Cheers 🙂
Thanks so much for posting this. After the OS X El Capitan Update I wasn't able to write to my hard drive and it was driving me insane until I found your suggestion, which immediately worked. Thanks!
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