He’s had this happen routinely with a Mac mini using flash drives and external hard disk drives (HDDs). I’ve definitely seen some of this behavior, though it’s not routine. If OS X “understands” why it can’t unmount a drive, starting a few releases ago, it will tell you...
process of detaching a storage device or filesystem from the operating system, making it safe for removal. this ensures that no data is being read from or written to the device, reducing the risk of data corruption or loss. when you plug in an external hard drive or universal serial bus ...
Catalina and external hard drives Since I found a solution for my problem this is more like a confirmation of what I read about Catalina. I have the issue with two HDD (Toshiba 2GB and WD 5GB) not being mounted by my MBP 2017 running Catalina. The smaller drive was at least shown seve...
How do I unmount an external hard drive? Here are the ways you can eject your external USB hard drive. On your desktop, right-click the icon of your hard drive and select Eject (disk name). Select your hard drive on your desktop, go to File in the Finder menu, then click Eject. ...
Since upgrading my iMac from Mojave to Catalina, DU won't touch an external HDD. It says it can't unmount the drive. Therefore, it won't run first aid, partition, erase, or, obviously, unmount. Trying operations from the command line (diskutil) yields the attached screenshot. Also, ...
There are a number of reasons why you might want to unmount a disk on your Mac. And you know that before you pull the plug, you should eject or unmount it. If you disconnect your USB stick or external hard drive without first ejecting it, you’ll see an error message. Sometimes, whe...
If you happen to have a Windows computer available, you can format the external hard drive, USB, or Time Machine backup disk that's experiencing "couldn't unmount disk 69888" on it, then initialize the drive on Mac with the desired file system. ...
Drive letters and mounted volumesIn Windows, volumes are mounted as drive letters and include drive partitions, removable disks, optical drives, external hard drives, and network drives. For instance, you probably have a partition on your HDD (Hard Disk Drive) or SSD (Solid-State Drive) ...
Can I mount an IMG or ISO file on an external hard drive or USB flash drive? Yes, Windows 11 allows you to mount IMG or ISO files stored on any accessible storage device, including external hard drives and USB flash drives. Simply connect the device to your computer, navigate to the I...
Studio and all devices are connected to power strips. Whenever I leave work I shut down the computer and then turn off the switches on the power strips, so that everything is disconnected from power completely. I have to do it like that and it never was a problem since all external......