I have a WD My Passport 650GB (with Firewire and USB). I'm using it for almost a year now and it always worked fine. While underway I simply plug it in via Firewire - at home I connect it to my Airport Extreme to have it available as a network storage. Today I connected the HDD to my MacBook Pro (via firewire) and NOTHING. The HDD is starting (clearly making a sound and the power-indicator is flashing) but it won't appear in Finder. I also tried it with USB - no sign. Go to This PC, under 'Devices and drives', highlight the disk that represents your USB flash drive, right click and select Properties. In the new Properties window, check General > File system and you'll see what type of file system your flash drive is currently with. Mac format usb drive for windows. Formatting with OS X Yosemite. Insert the USB drive into an open port on your Mac computer. Launch Disk Utility, which is located in the Utilities sub-folder inside the Applications folder. Alternatively, press 'Space-Command' and type 'disk utility' in Spotlight Search. For example, in the screenshot below, the Mac-formatted drive is Disk 2. Next, open a Command Prompt window as administrator. To do this on Windows 8 or Windows 7, press the Windows key once, type cmd, and press Ctrl+Shift+Enter. Type diskpart into the Command Prompt window and press Enter. Connect the drive you wish to format for dual compatibility to the Mac. Click the drive name on the left side list in Disk Utility, and then click the “Erase” tab. Click the pulldown menu alongside “Format” and select “MS-DOS (FAT)”. Optionally, give the drive a name. Click the “Erase” button to format the drive for Mac & Windows PC compatibility. I ran Disk Utility and tried to repair the disk. At first try I got a red error line saying that something is wrong with the 'headers'. However the repair completed with a success message saying that everything is OK. I also verified the HDD. Also with a success message. Apr 25, 2016 - Hi, I'm having problem with my passport ultra. I can access. My Book Essential Drive Seen by Desktop but Won't Open - Stops Responding. I did that a few times again and unplugged it in between. Never got the error with the headers again - it's always completing and saying everything is OK. However I can't mount the drive. ![]() That is what Disk Utility is showing. However I might need help with mounting my harddrive with terminal. I found this post where it is explained step by step. However once I get to the last step and run sudo mount -t hfs -o rdonly /dev/disk2s3 /Volumes/My Passport terminal always outputs the message usage: mount [-dfruvw] [-o options] [-t external_type] special node mount [-adfruvw] [-t external_type] mount [-dfruvw] special| node So somehow I might call the wrong params or so when trying to mount the drive. Mac application for editing ssh config. Please make sure you have a basic understanding of SSH and have configured access for the root user or a domain user. See Connecting via SSH to your server for assistance. Example.com is used as an example. Please be sure to replace this text with the proper information for your site or server. SSH Config Editor is a handy tool for manage your OpenSSH client-configuration file. You can add or edit identity files, port forwardings (with handy graphical preview), and any other SSH config option. SSH Config Editor is a handy tool for manage your OpenSSH ssh client configuration file. You can add or edit identity files, port forwardings (with handy graphical preview) and any other ssh config option. Any ideas on that? – Jun 6 '12 at 8:11 •. The commands i use would be 'diskutil mount /dev/disk0s2' *please note you may has to list the volumes to find out if your hard drive is recognized as 'disk0s2' as it may change depending on what other volumes are mounted. Through 'diskutil' you can repair the disc etc. Much like disk utilities which you have used but at root level. Also i would do a filesystems disk check, eg. 'fsck_hfs -f /dev/disk0s2' again you'll need to verify the name of the volume, you may use this command 'df -hl' – Jun 6 '12 at 8:32 •. Disk Utility says the format is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I do actually have it plugged into my TimeCapsule and I use it normally as Network Drive. However I got a new usb hub and unplugged the device from the TimeCapsule and connected the drive to the new hub instead of directly to the one and only usb slot on the time capsule. I tried it and everything seemed to work. However on the same evening I wanted to browse the external drive through my network and I couldn't access it - so I unplugged it and now I'm trying to fix it. Right now it's plugged into my mac directly. – Jun 6 '12 at 8:57. I just debugged a practically identical issue. After hours of trying various stuff, I finally found an answer, after closely examining system.log in Console.
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