I have a MacBook Pro with macOS El Capitain. My WD hard drives are recognized, but my new Seagate 1T drive is invisible. The light on the drive works, which tells me that it is drawing power from the computer.
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But the computer does not recognize the drive. Any one knows how to fix Seagate external hard drive not recognized/showing up/detected on Mac or at least recover files from the drive? Just similar to the case above, many Mac users have reported that their Seagate hard drives' lights were on but not recognized by Mac.
The reasons behind this problem may be issue, errors on USB ports, system failure, virus infection, external drive damage or corruption, etc. Let's check out different measures to solve Seagate external hard drive not recognized on Mac issue. Can the Seagate external hard drive be found in Disk Utility? For many Mac users, when they say the Seagate external hard drive is not recognized on Mac, they mean their drives can't show up in Finder. But actually, most of the time even if a in Finder, it still can be found in Disk Utility. So at the first step, we should check whether the drive is showing up in Disk Utility. Scenario 1: The Seagate external hard drive is recognized but can't be mounted in Disk Utility If you can see the Seagate external hard drive show up in Disk Utility, it means the drive is recognized by Mac.
If it's not mounted, you can simply click the Mount icon to mount it. However, if you can't mount it or the Mount icon is greyed out, there may be some file system or partition table errors. Solution: Fix the Seagate external hard drive by reformatting. To avoid unnecessary data loss on the not mounted Seagate external hard drive, you should firstly recover data and then reformat it in Disk Utility. IBoysoft Mac Data Recovery is which can recover data from not recognized Seagate external hard drives, recover data from formatted, unmountable, inaccessible, unreadable or corrupted hard drives, external hard drives, USB flash drives, SD cards, memory cards, etc. Step 1: Launch iBoysoft Mac Data Recovery.
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Step 2: Select the Seagate external hard drive and click 'Next' button to scan for all the lost data. Step 3: Preview the searching results, choose files you need, and click 'Recover' to get them back. Step 4: Have a check to ensure you have got all the lost data back. Step 5: Format the Seagate external hard drive in Disk Utility. IBoysoft Mac Data Recovery is compatible with //10.12 Sierra and Mac OS X 10.11/10.10/10.9/10.8/10.7. Scenario 2: The Seagate external hard drive isn't showing up in Finder/on the desktop If your Seagate external hard drive can show up and mount in Disk Utility, the drive is still in normal state. You can't see it showing up in Finder or on the desktop is usually because you haven't setup your Mac to do so.
Solution: Show Seagate external hard drive in Finder or on desktop Step 1: Go to Finder Preferences Sidebar/General tab. Step 2: Select 'External disks' under 'Devices' (or 'External disks' under 'Show these items on the desktop'), and then your Seagate external hard drive will show up as set. Scenario 3: The Seagate external hard drive can't show up in Disk Utility If your Seagate external hard drive can't be listed in Disk Utility, this problem may be caused by bad USB port, broken USB cable, or hardware problem. Solution 1: Try a different USB port/cable. You can try a different USB cable, connect the drive to a different USB port or a different computer. Solution 2: Send it to a local technician for help.
If you failed to fix the not recognized Seagate external hard drive through the two solutions above, it is probably the drive has some hardware problems and can't be fixed by software. Under that condition, you need to seek help from a local data recovery company.