If you have disabled USB interface in BIOS, the external hard drive will not detected. You can press certain key (depended on your own computer manufacturer) while booting computer to enter BIOS to check whether the USB device is enabled. Zip explorer mac. Verify Seagate external hard drive is connected properly and well. If the drive is not in System Information/System Profiler or in Disk Utility then try another Mac to see if the drive is detected there. If the drive is detected on the other Mac then continue with the following Apple specific troubleshooting. Trying some of Apple specific troubleshooting may help resolve the issue.
- Seagate Backup Plus Mac Setup
- Seagate Backup Plus Not Being Detected Windows
- Seagate Backup Plus Mac Software
It had been working fine, until I updated whatever the latest version of Maverick's or whatever update came out.
- 1) Disconnect your seagate hard drive to computer 2) Unplug the cable from the hard drive 3) Blow into the port of the computer, the hard drive and the cable 4) Reconnect the hard drive to the computer using the same cable.
- The message “Disk Not Ejected Properly” usually appears when an external drive is disconnected from the computer without safely ejecting.However, some users have reported issues with drives randomly ejecting themselves after updating the macOS. Most reports indicate that the issue is seen after the computer has gone to sleep.
- Data recovery of a Seagate Backup Plus. Removing the casing and opening the harddisk to be able to fix the problem en to clone it.Disclaimer: Do this repair.
Yes, know the issue. Did you EVER install any (utterly worthless) hard drive control software that came bundled with that ext. USB hard drive?
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OR especially software from a Western Digital drive?
If so youve got a serious issue of data loss (which is why you NEVER ever have a single external backup of data).
You can read all about it here on the last 20 pages:
If you installed (which you should NEVER do) any HD control software, then youve got a serious issue where all your metadata is lost
Seagate Backup Plus Mac Setup
Metadata is the data about the data on the HD, meaning not total loss, but almost the same as.
Run Etrecheck and post the results:
use this FREE little test APP to verify (most people here use it for diagnostics)
Seagate Backup Plus Not Being Detected Windows
EtreCheck is a simple little app to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac. EtreCheck automatically removes any personally identifiable information from the output.
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Apr 30, 2014 10:47 PM