When you’re unable to eject an external hard drive from your Mac, it could be because one or more apps or programs are running in the background. You can use the “Activity Monitor” tool to find and stop all running apps, then eject the hard drive. This tool is pre-installed, so ...
When you plug in your external hard disk to your computer, you may find that your hard drive is detected by the operating system, but you're not able to open it. Such a problem can occur due to multiple factors, and if you're worried that you won't be able to reaccess the drive ...
The duplicates will be permanently removed from your external hard drive. If it were your computer’s internal hard drive instead of an external one, more removal options (such as Move to Recycle Bin/Trash) would be available. Important:Please don’t eject your external hard drive that is co...
You may be able to access your external hard drive and data in it. But this method is not 100% successful, you may receive error message like “The type of the file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.”, and result into data loss. It works if this drive was fir...
What can I do if Windows 11 won’t eject the external hard drive? 1. Restart your PC Restarting your computer is the first thing to consider when you’re experiencing this issue. Shutting down your computer closes down all applications and third-party processes. ...
I just tried force quitting everything, and tried to eject it but it still says that finder is using it. I need it to be able to unmount and remount by itself. Reply of 1 How can I eject an external hard drive without losing data?Welcome...
After confirmation that your external hard drive is being recognized by your PC, there are some final checks you can perform to really zone in on the issue. We’d recommend checking your S.M.A.R.T. data first.CrystalDiskInfois a useful tool for checking the raw values of your S.M.A...
If you have a problem with the external hard drive not showing up on your Mac, fix the problem in different ways, such as rebooting your Mac, editing Finder preferences, repairing the external hard drive with First Aid, and so on. Besides, you can troubl
Connect your dead external hard drive to your PC; Download, install, and launch Recoverit; Select the external device from which you want to recover files to start the scanning process; Recoverit will scan your hard drive for lost files. The scanned files will be displayed on the ...
Should the external drive still not be recognized, you can try it on another PC. This rules out the possibility of the problemresiding with your computer’s USB ports. If the external hard drive is still not recognized, move on to the next fix. ...