Arhsmacdude

Q: External Drives not showing in 10.11.6

I'm having a major problem with El Capitan (10.11.6). whenever I plugin a Firewire device to my MacBook Pro, it won't show up (when I start up from my 'macintosh hd' partition). When I started up from the Recovery - 10.11.2 partition and went into Disk Utility, it shows up without fail. I was also able to see my MacBook Pro on my 2004 iBook G4 when I had it in target mode. How do I go about fixing this problem? my external hard drive only has Firewire 400 ports on it, so I've been stuck without it for over a week

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), my current laptop

Posted on Sep 7, 2016 7:15 PM