I clicked 'Start' and let it ran, but it didn't have a progress bar and just had a 'Cancel' button.Īfter running for minutes, my mom came in and unplugged the external hard drive forcefully I yelled at her for doing that. It says that it detected an error and had the option of automatically fixing it. I then plugged in my WD hard drive to a Windows laptop. I tried changing the Mac laptop, changing the USB cord, same problem. Ever since that my WD hard drive has the flashing problem and can't be mounted on my Mac.
When I charged up my Mac again it says that the disk was not ejected properly. I was not actively reading or writing to the external hard drive, but it did have a list of directories open no individual photo files, but just the directory names. I tried opening up Disk Utility on my Mac, but it just spins forever trying to mount the external hard drive. It can be read on a Windows laptop after Windows automatically fixed an error. After more than an hour I came back and the drive showed up on my Mac again. I plugged in again into my MacBook and left it there. Ask Different is a question and answer site for power users of Apple hardware and software.
