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Knowledge Base: What does 'Mount' mean on Mac Why can't access the external hard drive on Mac Fix external hard drives not mounting issue on Mac Dos and Don'ts When External Hard Drive Not Mounting on Mac Recover data from an external hard drive that won't mount Wondering "why my external hard drives won't mount on Mac"? This post explains the reasons and teaches how to fix this disk problem without losing data. I can't do First Aid as my LaCie external drive does not mount on the MacBook Pro. The main drive is greyed out in Disk Utility and the partition is not showing up. Now after updating, macOS is not mounting this external hard drive. "I have a 500 GB LaCie external hard drive, formatted as macOS Extend journaled on MacBook Pro 2014 and I have been using it to do Time Machine backups. So, it's annoying when you find that your external hard drive is not mounting for the error or not recognized by your Mac, just like the user below.

You can then restore your backup data using the Migration Assistant.Usually, an external hard drive will appear (aka mounted) automatically on your Mac once you plug it in, and you can access data on this drive. If repairs aren't successful: As long as you have a backup of the data stored on the affected drive, reformat the drive and perform a clean installation of your operating system version.

However, don't give up try rerunning the repair a few times. If First Aid reports a failure: "The underlying task reported failure" message indicates that it failed at making the needed repair.If you must have the file, then check your backup for a usable copy.

If you don't need the file, or you can delete the file and easily recreate it.

You can examine the files in the DamagedFiles folder.

More than likely, both files have become corrupt, but there's a slight chance you can recover one or both of them. The overlapped error indicates that two (or possibly more) files occupied the same location on the drive receiving repair.

If First Aid displays an "overlapped extent allocation" error: Disk Utility will create a DamagedFiles folder at the root level of your startup drive.

In some previous versions of First Aid, it was necessary to run the repair process multiple times to ensure the repairs were complete that is no longer required.

If First Aid reports no issues: If First Aid indicates that the drive appears to be okay or that repairs are complete, you're done.