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Thanks for the tip! IBoysoft data recovery worked for me after I scanned the disk and let it run over night. When I opened the computer in the morning the scan had completed, but amazingly the disk had mounted properly and I managed to eject it as normal, then backed it up to another hard drive.
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I am using youtube for more than 10 years and I have never written a single comment. Man, I thought I have lost 2TB of videos of the last 13 years. Thank you very much.
This is the only UA-cam video or website that has helped me with this problem. This dude deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for this!! If this is your first time using this video, BOOKMARK IT ASAP.
I seriously don’t know how to thank you.My 5TB external Drive with over 1TB of files on it wouldn’t show up. I spent over two hours watching UA-cam videos and none of them worked, except this one. You’re a life savior.
Incredible! Thank you so much for putting this together. Here I was thinking I lost over 14 TB of data, and about to surrender and ask for a refund or replacement from WD, and I found your video. I followed the steps and although mine did not launch/mount automatically, I followed the advice of someone in the comments who said to wait 60-90 mins as it can take a while to rescan drive. Came back later and the drive had mounted and I have my files back! Amazing amazing amazing!
Thanks SOOO much. In the end I just had to force quit FSCK_HFS in Activity Monitor. Worked like a charm. Your commenters saved my life! Many thanks all!
I'd watched half a dozen other videos that ranged from changing a connection cable to simply using Disk Utility but this video solved my issue. The list command prompted the hard drive to appear in Disk Utility so I didn't have to go futher that that, but it was great to see my drive pop up there. Thank you
For anyone who got “/Volumes/usb failed with 1”, just leave your drive plugged in for 30-90 minutes to see if it pops up. Catalina takes forever to rescan some hard drives after they’ve been improperly ejected, like mine. Hope this helps.
Hi. I got that exactly.../Volumes/usb failed with 1...Do you mean if I leave it plugged in for 30-90 minutes, it would eventually be mounted? Pls. Pls...
This is correct. It's running a repair on a corrupted volume which takes time. This "rescan", once complete, will allow the drive to resume normal operations after an hour or two, depending on the drive size.
YOU SAVED MY LIFE!!!! THIS WORKS!! The light of my hard drive was on but since last night that I disconnected it without unmounting it, my laptop wasn't recognizing it. I followed these steps and it immediately appeared back!
If it says resource busy you need to change "hfs" in the last command. Try to change it out to "Microsoft Basic Data". if that doesn't work, when you type "diskutil list", then replace "hfs" in the final command with whatever is in front of the name of your hard drive.
I know you posted this a year ago lol, but I followed your advice and the terminal spit this out: usage: mount [-dfruvw] [-o options] [-t external_type] special node mount [-adfruvw] [-t external_type] mount [-dfruvw] special | node Do I need to do anything else, or does this mean the disk has been mounted?
This video has helped me more times than I care to admit! I recently upgraded to an M1 iMac Running Monterey. I have an external HD (Western Digital 6tb). After connecting it to my iMac upon transferring a very very small file my whole computer hung. I later read through Mac forums that Western Digital announced that it is a known issue with M1 Monterey for external drives particularly the 4tb to hang. Anyways, This process totally worked and I was able to retrieve my drive. I'd also like to note for anyone reading this - I previously tried to use diskutil and first aid as well as using terminal to unmount and mount. All things failed - but the sudo drive technique seems to always work! THANK YOU!
This worked for me! I had to use these commands in Terminal after doing the sequence in your tutorial: diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 diskutil eject /dev/disk2 I removed my hard drive then plugged it in after and then it worked. Thank you so much!
I just watched, and liked, your video, “Force an External Mac Drive to Mount via Command Line Terminal Commands in Mac OS X.” It was very helpful. I’ve tried many times to learn terminal commands on my own and via online resources, and have not had much success. Your video is one of the clearest and easy to follow explanations I’ve ever come across! Thank you very much for posting it.
Thank you for this video. I have a big promotions test that I'm studying for, and all of my study info is on my external hard drive that wouldn't mount. This video was a lifesaver! Thank you!
You just saved my life, Bro ... I wish you the best for you and your family ... It’s been a day reading all apple discussion forum and Google until I got here ... Thanks UA-cam!
Thank you so much for this video! Unfortunately, external drives seem to have gotten much more fickle, especially if accidentally disconnected. This process has helped me to mount 20+ TB (yes TB) of hard drives-one of which I thought I was gonna have to have repaired. I've liked, saved, shared, and more. Thank you!!!
I'm so grateful for this. I thought I had to go to a service to recover all my backup weddings and events I've photographed. Worked like a charm. THANK YOU!
Mine said the same. I now rented the iBoysoft Data Recovery. I can see everything on the drive. I was hoping to recover my project files like libraries. Not sure until 3.6 TB of data does what ever.
Bro… did you wait about 30 to 90 mins like they said about the rescan is fixing the drive. The last method or resort would be the software he is talking about
I literally never leave comments even though I always use UA-cam, but I spent the last week trying to figure out what was going on with my hard drive. Ended up wiping my whole computer and getting back to the latest OS but then couldn't access my drive to get my old files. So many sites, articles, comments - and your video helped me fix it and made my computer mount my device. Thank you SO MUCH!!!!!!
You're welcome! I'm really glad it helped. Make sure you set up a TimeMachine backup. I've learned the hard way a few times and lost files when I couldn't fix problems.
Like most of the comments in here, I must express my most sincere gratitude for your step by step guide. I just regained access to client video files for work that I would have otherwise lost forever. Thank you so much for the helpful guide! Cheers!
Thank you so much!! Backing up my disk!! Realized today it hasn't been backed up since February ! So grateful for this video because I really did start backing up external drive on another one (suggested by another video) and stopped because I knew there had to be another and much, much not only simpler solution but one that wouldn't take SO MUCH time having to back up and then put back on to the drive. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!! And I appreciate that everything was to the point, quick, and simple. THANK YOU again!!!!!
Thank you for the video! I tried this & got the errors that's plaguing a lot of others: error = -1 resource busy failed with 1 I then tried to mount using disk utility & waiting like others suggested, that didn't work either. Lastly, I tried force quitting fsck_hfs in the activity monitor & that worked for me!
Hi Gemsbok! Thanks for the tutorial! We followed everything in the video, however in the end after executing the last command to mount the harddrive to the new "usb" station, nothing happened. We got the same messages as you, but nothing happened. Do you have any suggestions what we can do?
THANK YOU SO MUCH! This worked for me. It didn't work right away and I still got the initial error message but after bout 10 minutes my drive was mounted and all my data intact. Thanks again.
Thanks for your clear instructions! Unfortunately I'm still unable to mount my HDD external drive since upgrading to Catalina (it's the highest OS I can use on my old late 2012 mac which is still running pretty well) and wondering if there might be another limiting factor related to Time Machine backups. the HSF+ format on Catalina OS. First off, First Aid in Disk Utility says it's fine, all good---suggesting the hard drive and data isn't corrupt (?), but I can't mount it all the same. Also, unlike you, there's no external drive/disk image icon on my desktop (or in Finder, of course), but I can see it in Disk Utility and Terminal (so I know my computer can access the external drive.) My external drive is formatted as an HSF+. (Terminal identifies it as and "HSF" but elsewhere it identifies it as HSF+ Extended Journal), which I've read Catalina is supposed to be able to mount and read/access (meaning HSF+, not HSF standard). However, I have Time Machine Backups on this drive (as well as other files) and I'm wondering if the problem has something to do with a that....From the reading-up I've done today, it seems that Catalina can't us APFA formatted drives to do Time Machine back-ups, but it may also have trouble reading HSF drives? FIY, I ran through all our instructions in your tutorial in Terminal and all seemed to go well, save that my drive still didn't mount; I got the exact same error you got and could overlook, but in my case. the disk image icon on the desk top didn't show up anyway. (And, as I said, I can't see the external drive icon on my desktop in any case. Attempts to mount after I ran your instructions in Terminal via Disk Utility just returned the "DiskManagement.disenter error 49153", which is where my journey today started! At this point, I might be satisfied just to be able to "read only" the file. I can sacrifice the Time Machine BUs, so long as I can can format the drive in Catalina to make new ones (sounds like there might be a conflict there) but I really need to review the rest of the files before wiping my drive clean. Sorry for this very long comment...just found your explanation very lucid and hope you might have some insight into my problem. Cheers.
I can't thank you enough!!!! It also said resource busy for me, but I just left everything alone and the hard drive showed up about half an hour later.
I got Resource Busy, so I used Disk Utility unsuccessfully. I followed your instructions again and this time it worked. The only difference is that I spelled Volume with a capital everywhere this time. Probably not the issue
If it says resource busy you need to change "hfs" in the last command. Try to change it out to "Microsoft Basic Data". if that doesn't work, when you type "diskutil list", then replace "hfs" in the final command with whatever is in front of the name of your hard drive.
If it says resource busy you need to change "hfs" in the last command. Try to change it out to "Microsoft Basic Data". if that doesn't work, when you type "diskutil list", then replace "hfs" in the final command with whatever is in front of the name of your hard drive.
@@LukeMaximoBell1 thank you for your reply! i had "resource busy" come up, and i looked what was infront of my hard drive and mine said "Windows_NTFS" so if anyone else has the problem, try putting that instead of HFS.
@@BeccaW I tired replacing hfs with "Windows_NTFS", i tired "Apple_HFS" I tried "Microsoft Basic Data", and they all gave me " "No such file or directory"
Really, made my day! Thanks a lot. Just removed external drive by unplugging yesterday and since then i was struggling to connect it back, now its up again :)
hello, I´ve had the same problem, but found a solution... try this way: Not like in video with: sudo mount -t hfs /dev/disk2 /Volumes/usb/ My solution was to write just: sudo mount -t hfs /dev/disk2
@@ali9550 Hi, I have got following output when I tried your suggestion. usage: mount [-dfruvw] [-o options] [-t external_type] special mount_point mount [-adfruvw] [-t external_type] mount [-dfruvw] special | mount_point
Worked for me with MacOS Big Sur! Initially, I got the "failed with 1" response on the command line, so wasn't thinking it worked for me. But, I waited a little, and then restarted my iMac and the Drobo drive icon mounted and was usuable. Thanks so much, so awesome you took the time and trouble to make this video!
I copied your method exactly and received all the same messages, including the last "invalid argument" message but the drive still did not mount. I tried the unmounting and mounting commands from the other links from stackexchange in comments that someone mentioned but no luck there either. Help!
i took the suggestion from below @raina wang and it worked for me Raina Wang 1 month ago For those who is seeing this error, i've got a solution: run "diskutil list" again, and find the IDENTIFIER for your actual hard drive. Also open your Disk Utility, and look at the actual format of your disk. For example, my disk format is "ntfs", and identifier is "disk2s1". And then run "sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/disk2s1 /Volumes/usb". (Note, you need to use the correct format after -t and the path should be end with the disk identifier). This worked for me!
Hey man, much appreciated that you adress this problem. I followed your steps and were on the exact same track, until the moment I tried to search for already mounted volumes, whereas my external disc in fact showed up as mounted. Do you have any suggestions for the meaning of this?
Thank you so much. I was able to access an external hard drive that had hundreds of ole family photos and videos including the actual birth of my son! Now that I’m in, I’m working to get all of the data into iCloud so I never have to deal with this again! Thanks again!
For those who is seeing this error, i've got a solution: run "diskutil list" again, and find the IDENTIFIER for your actual hard drive. Also open your Disk Utility, and look at the actual format of your disk. For example, my disk format is "ntfs", and identifier is "disk2s1". And then run "sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/disk2s1 /Volumes/usb". (Note, you need to use the correct format after -t and the path should be end with the disk identifier). This worked for me!
@@luiscardenas9556 yeah it is, but for some reason my disk is formatted as ntfs, and I installed a software called Tuxera NTFS to make it work on Mac. It is a Toshiba hard drive.
Thank you! After a MacBook pro failed to book, I kept trying to mount it to my mac mini in target disk mode, but the disk would not mount. Command line tools and disk utility would not mount the drive. The instructions in your video finally mounted the drive!
i can't tell you how appreciative i am for this post as it fixed my problem. The 'experts' lectured me and told me to reformat my hard drive. Thank you.
I got the following: mount_hfs: error on mount(): error = -1. mount_hfs: Invalid argument mount: /Volumes/usb failed with 1 and nothing showing up on desktop what do I do next please?
@@afnandaba6561 i took the suggestion from below @raina wang and it worked for me Raina Wang 1 month ago For those who is seeing this error, i've got a solution: run "diskutil list" again, and find the IDENTIFIER for your actual hard drive. Also open your Disk Utility, and look at the actual format of your disk. For example, my disk format is "ntfs", and identifier is "disk2s1". And then run "sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/disk2s1 /Volumes/usb". (Note, you need to use the correct format after -t and the path should be end with the disk identifier). This worked for me!
I literally can not thank you enough! I have tried everything and thought I lost 20 YEARS and 3TB of my kids lives plus family, friends and professional photos I have taken!!! You are amazing! If you can recommend any online photo storage for someone who has done personal and some professional photography over the years, please advise me! I am so sick of being at the mercy of these drives going down. Again, THANK YOU SOOOO VERY MUCH!!!
Thank you so so much! Doing this allowed my LaCie to mount and my previous file to appear. Fear that I lost my huge file averted! So once I typed in my new name for my drive, "LaCie" it then created it and then mounted the previous drive also by its original name, also "LaCie". So now "LaCie" & "LaCie 1" are present. Clicked on the original now mounted drive, success! File is back! Drive mounted. You the best!🖤🙆♀️
Thank you isn't enough for the time you saved me having to recreat 2TB of lost documents due to a power surge. I prayed to God to help me find a way to fix this problem and then I found your very clear and concise video. Thank you 😊 for your help!
@VidGva External drive that I had accidentally left some parts unbacked up. There was a power surge and my surge protector failed, fried the external drive.
Nope. I get this: DiskMangement.disenter.error - but I kept the drive plugged in while I researched that, and it FINALLY worked. Maybe 20 minutes total of waiting including that error message.
@@UnderMyHatAdventures Pretty sure I closed it. I know I made a note of it so I could research it, but I was so frustrated by that point, I'm not 100% sure if I kept it up. Knowing me, though, I probably closed it and walked off to cool down.
@@sparkconsciousness Well I'm definitely to that point! A work project is on this hard drive and it worked fine last night! Hoping just leaving it for a while works like it did for you.
@@UnderMyHatAdventures Oh goodness! Good luck! Definitely leave it plugged into the port for a bit and see what happens. Make yourself a cuppa and walk away from it. Maybe that's the secret!
try this if you haven't fixed your problem. Hope it helps apple.stackexchange.com/questions/235309/external-drive-does-not-mount-after-plug-off-without-eject Basically the HD needs to be told to unmounted first then ejected. This is the part in the article I found that worked. Where it says /dev/disk2 you need to ensure you type what YOUR HD is called that isn't ejecting/mounting/headache. Hope this helps like it helped me. diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 diskutil eject /dev/disk2
The first time it worked perfectly, but the second time "Resource busy" appears or it doesn't work. Any recommendation? I thought I had finally found the solution to this problem and I still have information to recover on the external hard drive. Thank you very much
Thanks for taking the time do make this amazing video, I tried everything and so many tutorials, this one fixes my issue. Congrats. Just subscribed. :)
Well, I know this video is a few years old now, but still relevant and what a life saver. Thank you so much. I have another old external HDD that would never mount so I will try this on that as well. Thanks again!
I've plug out my external drive without pressing "eject" and just by taking out the usb cable. And after that, I couldn't see it anymore for 2 days. My heart sank because i had a lot of important data there. And this tutorial was the only way I recover it. Thank you so much. Such a relief.
Omg thank you so much! I can't believe it actually worked! Had a ton of backed up files and movies save from years of work. So happy I didn't lose all my files! 😌🙏🏻
This is incredibly helpful. Is the process the same for external raid devices? I've gone through the process but the drive goes to sleep after 30 min or so. I've let it sit for a couple hours but it hasn't mounted so far. If the process is different for a raid I'm curious and thankful to know.
It's cool and nice your intention to teach us and it's also been a great help, but commands you write in terminal can't be seen and I had to figure it out what you wrote. Thanks and I will appreciate if you edit the video for others to understand your teaching.
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH FOR THIS! Mine ended up working by putting Windows_NTFS instead of HFS. But thank you for the easy step by step follow through of this! Helped so much!
Hi- for a Raid 0 system (i have 3 ssds in raid 0 config, in one OWC thunderbay via thunderbolt connection) - what commands i must use to force mounting them? cause suddenly i am unable to mount the raid anymore - i have 6 tb with all my work there... i am ruined if i cant access it anymore - Please help!
THANK YOU!!! Works amazingly, thought I had corrupted files on my external. I tried everything!! Finally your tutorial worked and my External is in no risk of being needed to erase. Very clear and helpful!
@@GemsbokAppleTipsandTricks hey! I actually had the same problem today!!! I went though all the steps in the tutorial but around the end. I did “sudo mount -t hfs /dev/disk2 /Volumes/usb/ and it had a different error reply! mount_hfs: error on mount(): error = -1. mount hfs: Resource busy mount: /Volumes/usb failed with 1 If there’s anyway to fix this please let me know!!! Thank you!!!
@@GemsbokAppleTipsandTricks here’s my first aid report on the external: Running First Aid on “John's Hard Drive” (disk3) Verifying storage system Performing fsck_cs -n -x --lv --uuid A588571B-B732-41CB-B266-76655BF37DDD Checking volume disk2s2: Scan for Volume Headers disk2s2: Scan for Disk Labels Logical Volume Group A588571B-B732-41CB-B266-76655BF37DDD on 1 device disk2s2: Scan for Metadata Volume Logical Volume Group has a 24 MB Metadata Volume with double redundancy Start scanning metadata for a valid checkpoint Load and verify Segment Headers Load and verify Checkpoint Payload Load and verify Transaction Segment Incorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactions Load and verify Virtual Address Table Load and verify Segment Usage Table Load and verify Metadata Superblock Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume Load and verify 0517A99E-7EDA-4239-A075-0AA8906D8B22 Load and verify 4D676DC8-1528-45B5-A071-4F51291723CE Load and verify Freespace Summary Load and verify Block Accounting Load and verify Live Virtual Addresses Newest transaction commit checkpoint is valid Load and verify Segment Cleaning The volume A588571B-B732-41CB-B266-76655BF37DDD appears to be OK Storage system check exit code is 0. Repairing file system. Volume is already unmounted. Performing fsck_hfs -fy -x /dev/rdisk3 File system check exit code is 8. Restoring the original state found as unmounted. File system verify or repair failed. : (-69845) Operation failed…
thx a lot. Worked for me with MacOS Catalina. Initially, I got the "failed with 1" response and reason = busy, so wasn't thinking it worked for me. But, I waited a little, and then drive icon mounted and was usuable.
Thanks for the video. It is very clear and the comments show that it really works. I got the same error as you got, but unfortunately my hdd is not mounted like yours! What should I do?
I got an error from this, and didn't look to see if it was mounted yet. ran "sudo diskutil mount -mountpoint /Volumes/usb /dev/disk2s2" and ONE of them worked. I ejected the disk, and plugged it back in and it mounted by itself no problem. Thanks!
OMG!!! You just saved my 5TB drive…THANK YOU!!! By the way…I was just about to tear my hair out when I remembered that you said it might take a minute. This took more than a minute. It took more like five before it showed up. But it did. And the first time I got the error = -1 thing. The second time, I got rid of the space between /dev/disk2 and the rest of the path, and that got rid of the error. Liked and subbed!!!
Great video! I have a "WD My Passport for Mac" that blinks but does not show up on Disk Util or running the terminal diskutil list... is there anything else you suggest I can do? Thx in advance !
I always see people saying things have worked for them and ive never been one of them....i cried when my HDD just stoped working......i was trying all of the methods i came across but none work.....id like to thank you for these terminal codes as i was able to bring back mt drive from the dead....im monitoring it now and will advise. WILL BE BACKING IT UP TODAY THANK YOU
Thanks, great info here. I was all ready to do the force mount, had typed out ".../Volumes/usb/" , was just about to hit enter, then a mac message pops up saying "the external drive cannot be repaired"...haha but at least it was suddenly being recognized! Was suddenly showing up on the desktop and finder. It may be that just leaving the external drive in for a while made things "wake up" a bit..?
GGGGreat video!! The GUI would not mount my ExFat 5TB drive and it had years of files. Thank, please redo this video to show up in UA-cam as a newer then 3 years because the step saved me from running into traffic tonight (joke)!!!
Thank you for your video. Unfortunately, my 1 TB SSD external HD doesn't even show up in Disk Utility (MacBook Pro 2011) nor in the diskutil list in my terminal. But it does show up like normal on my other MacBook Pro 2012 screen when I plug it in (same cable). Any advice on what could be the issue? The USB ports on the 2011 work fine with other devices. Thank you very much!
Hey, I got the same error you did but my HD didn't appear on the screen like in your case. Did you happen to know what the error was and how to remedy that. :) I really do need a bit of help. Thanks
I had this problem months ago and I did similar things but they didn't work till I combined a few different tutorials. This worked for me great and it was easier as well...
Hello, I tried this, but I get a failed comment. Resource busy mount: /Volumes/usb failed with 1 Any idea what this means? I thought Macs were simple?! Thanks for your help.
Hello, loved your video but my external drive still is not on my desktop... nor is in finder. It’s faded grey in the disk utility. What should I do now?
If you failed to mount the disk via command, the disk is seriously corrupted. Use iBoysoft Mac Data Recovery to recover 1GB data for free: bit.ly/3lVUhtx
Thanks for the tip! IBoysoft data recovery worked for me after I scanned the disk and let it run over night. When I opened the computer in the morning the scan had completed, but amazingly the disk had mounted properly and I managed to eject it as normal, then backed it up to another hard drive.
thanks man you saved my life
Drives mount fine under Linux/Windows 10 but not under MacOS and it is corrupted? More like something is amiss with this OS.
You prolly dont care but if you're bored like me atm then you can watch all the latest movies and series on instaflixxer. I've been streaming with my brother for the last few weeks xD
@Damon Luis yup, I've been watching on instaflixxer for since december myself =)
I am using youtube for more than 10 years and I have never written a single comment. Man, I thought I have lost 2TB of videos of the last 13 years. Thank you very much.
This is the only UA-cam video or website that has helped me with this problem. This dude deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for this!! If this is your first time using this video, BOOKMARK IT ASAP.
I seriously don’t know how to thank you.My 5TB external Drive with over 1TB of files on it wouldn’t show up. I spent over two hours watching UA-cam videos and none of them worked, except this one. You’re a life savior.
Incredible! Thank you so much for putting this together. Here I was thinking I lost over 14 TB of data, and about to surrender and ask for a refund or replacement from WD, and I found your video. I followed the steps and although mine did not launch/mount automatically, I followed the advice of someone in the comments who said to wait 60-90 mins as it can take a while to rescan drive. Came back later and the drive had mounted and I have my files back! Amazing amazing amazing!
Thanks SOOO much. In the end I just had to force quit FSCK_HFS in Activity Monitor. Worked like a charm. Your commenters saved my life! Many thanks all!
broooooo i wouldnt have fixed my EHD if it were not for this comment. thank you!
I'd watched half a dozen other videos that ranged from changing a connection cable to simply using Disk Utility but this video solved my issue. The list command prompted the hard drive to appear in Disk Utility so I didn't have to go futher that that, but it was great to see my drive pop up there. Thank you
For anyone who got “/Volumes/usb failed with 1”, just leave your drive plugged in for 30-90 minutes to see if it pops up. Catalina takes forever to rescan some hard drives after they’ve been improperly ejected, like mine. Hope this helps.
Hi. I got that exactly.../Volumes/usb failed with 1...Do you mean if I leave it plugged in for 30-90 minutes, it would eventually be mounted? Pls. Pls...
leave in for 30-90minutes!? Not very practical.
did anybody do this and it worked? pls reply
@@Elle-savedandloved nope
This is correct. It's running a repair on a corrupted volume which takes time. This "rescan", once complete, will allow the drive to resume normal operations after an hour or two, depending on the drive size.
YOU SAVED MY LIFE!!!! THIS WORKS!! The light of my hard drive was on but since last night that I disconnected it without unmounting it, my laptop wasn't recognizing it. I followed these steps and it immediately appeared back!
God bless u was about to get a mini heart attack when all the other methods didn’t work.
I love you. I have never felt this feeling for another man before.
If it says resource busy you need to change "hfs" in the last command. Try to change it out to "Microsoft Basic Data".
if that doesn't work, when you type "diskutil list", then replace "hfs" in the final command with whatever is in front of the name of your hard drive.
I'm stuck right there ...
I know you posted this a year ago lol, but I followed your advice and the terminal spit this out:
usage: mount [-dfruvw] [-o options] [-t external_type] special node
mount [-adfruvw] [-t external_type]
mount [-dfruvw] special | node
Do I need to do anything else, or does this mean the disk has been mounted?
This video has helped me more times than I care to admit! I recently upgraded to an M1 iMac Running Monterey. I have an external HD (Western Digital 6tb). After connecting it to my iMac upon transferring a very very small file my whole computer hung. I later read through Mac forums that Western Digital announced that it is a known issue with M1 Monterey for external drives particularly the 4tb to hang. Anyways, This process totally worked and I was able to retrieve my drive. I'd also like to note for anyone reading this - I previously tried to use diskutil and first aid as well as using terminal to unmount and mount. All things failed - but the sudo drive technique seems to always work! THANK YOU!
This worked for me!
I had to use these commands in Terminal after doing the sequence in your tutorial:
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
diskutil eject /dev/disk2
I removed my hard drive then plugged it in after and then it worked.
Thank you so much!
I just watched, and liked, your video, “Force an External Mac Drive to Mount via Command Line Terminal Commands in Mac OS X.” It was very helpful.
I’ve tried many times to learn terminal commands on my own and via online resources, and have not had much success. Your video is one of the clearest and easy to follow explanations I’ve ever come across! Thank you very much for posting it.
Thank you for this video. I have a big promotions test that I'm studying for, and all of my study info is on my external hard drive that wouldn't mount. This video was a lifesaver! Thank you!
You just saved my life, Bro ... I wish you the best for you and your family ... It’s been a day reading all apple discussion forum and Google until I got here ... Thanks UA-cam!
Thank you so much for this video! Unfortunately, external drives seem to have gotten much more fickle, especially if accidentally disconnected. This process has helped me to mount 20+ TB (yes TB) of hard drives-one of which I thought I was gonna have to have repaired. I've liked, saved, shared, and more. Thank you!!!
I've seen there is a nfs option, which didn't work.
I'm so grateful for this. I thought I had to go to a service to recover all my backup weddings and events I've photographed. Worked like a charm. THANK YOU!
didnt work for me last mount line says "/Volumes/usb failed with 1"
Mine said the same. I now rented the iBoysoft Data Recovery. I can see everything on the drive. I was hoping to recover my project files like libraries. Not sure until 3.6 TB of data does what ever.
Bro… did you wait about 30 to 90 mins like they said about the rescan is fixing the drive. The last method or resort would be the software he is talking about
I literally never leave comments even though I always use UA-cam, but I spent the last week trying to figure out what was going on with my hard drive. Ended up wiping my whole computer and getting back to the latest OS but then couldn't access my drive to get my old files. So many sites, articles, comments - and your video helped me fix it and made my computer mount my device. Thank you SO MUCH!!!!!!
You're welcome! I'm really glad it helped. Make sure you set up a TimeMachine backup. I've learned the hard way a few times and lost files when I couldn't fix problems.
Like most of the comments in here, I must express my most sincere gratitude for your step by step guide. I just regained access to client video files for work that I would have otherwise lost forever. Thank you so much for the helpful guide! Cheers!
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much!! Backing up my disk!! Realized today it hasn't been backed up since February ! So grateful for this video because I really did start backing up external drive on another one (suggested by another video) and stopped because I knew there had to be another and much, much not only simpler solution but one that wouldn't take SO MUCH time having to back up and then put back on to the drive. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!! And I appreciate that everything was to the point, quick, and simple. THANK YOU again!!!!!
Thank you for the video! I tried this & got the errors that's plaguing a lot of others:
error = -1
resource busy
failed with 1
I then tried to mount using disk utility & waiting like others suggested, that didn't work either.
Lastly, I tried force quitting fsck_hfs in the activity monitor & that worked for me!
That's a great solution. Thanks for letting me know!
@@GemsbokAppleTipsandTricks Success! I also executed force quit fsck_hfs in the activity monitor and it mounted immediately.
You are a lifesaver! This did the trick!
Thank you SO much!!! I haven’t been able to load my external on my new Mac, and you just made it possible! Thank you again!!
Hi Gemsbok! Thanks for the tutorial! We followed everything in the video, however in the end after executing the last command to mount the harddrive to the new "usb" station, nothing happened. We got the same messages as you, but nothing happened. Do you have any suggestions what we can do?
same issue
im having the same issue as well
same thing What did you figure of how to do it and can you tell me
guys anyone had it solved? im getting the same msgs in the terminal as the video but nothing happens, please!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! This worked for me. It didn't work right away and I still got the initial error message but after bout 10 minutes my drive was mounted and all my data intact. Thanks again.
Thanks for your clear instructions! Unfortunately I'm still unable to mount my HDD external drive since upgrading to Catalina (it's the highest OS I can use on my old late 2012 mac which is still running pretty well) and wondering if there might be another limiting factor related to Time Machine backups. the HSF+ format on Catalina OS.
First off, First Aid in Disk Utility says it's fine, all good---suggesting the hard drive and data isn't corrupt (?), but I can't mount it all the same. Also, unlike you, there's no external drive/disk image icon on my desktop (or in Finder, of course), but I can see it in Disk Utility and Terminal (so I know my computer can access the external drive.) My external drive is formatted as an HSF+. (Terminal identifies it as and "HSF" but elsewhere it identifies it as HSF+ Extended Journal), which I've read Catalina is supposed to be able to mount and read/access (meaning HSF+, not HSF standard). However, I have Time Machine Backups on this drive (as well as other files) and I'm wondering if the problem has something to do with a that....From the reading-up I've done today, it seems that Catalina can't us APFA formatted drives to do Time Machine back-ups, but it may also have trouble reading HSF drives?
FIY, I ran through all our instructions in your tutorial in Terminal and all seemed to go well, save that my drive still didn't mount; I got the exact same error you got and could overlook, but in my case. the disk image icon on the desk top didn't show up anyway. (And, as I said, I can't see the external drive icon on my desktop in any case. Attempts to mount after I ran your instructions in Terminal via Disk Utility just returned the "DiskManagement.disenter error 49153", which is where my journey today started!
At this point, I might be satisfied just to be able to "read only" the file. I can sacrifice the Time Machine BUs, so long as I can can format the drive in Catalina to make new ones (sounds like there might be a conflict there) but I really need to review the rest of the files before wiping my drive clean.
Sorry for this very long comment...just found your explanation very lucid and hope you might have some insight into my problem. Cheers.
I can't thank you enough!!!! It also said resource busy for me, but I just left everything alone and the hard drive showed up about half an hour later.
What do I do if it says Resource busy?
Yes, mine said Resource Busy. Would be nice to get a reply on this one!
I got Resource Busy, so I used Disk Utility unsuccessfully. I followed your instructions again and this time it worked. The only difference is that I spelled Volume with a capital everywhere this time. Probably not the issue
A very big thanks
If it says resource busy you need to change "hfs" in the last command. Try to change it out to "Microsoft Basic Data".
if that doesn't work, when you type "diskutil list", then replace "hfs" in the final command with whatever is in front of the name of your hard drive.
Nathan Raczkowski glad I could help! ☺️
Honestly mate, you are my savour!! I thought my 12TB drive full of two years of work was lost... thank you thank you thank you!!!
Also here i have the same problem my friend, What do I do if it says Resource busy.?
same
If it says resource busy you need to change "hfs" in the last command. Try to change it out to "Microsoft Basic Data".
if that doesn't work, when you type "diskutil list", then replace "hfs" in the final command with whatever is in front of the name of your hard drive.
@@LukeMaximoBell1 thank you for your reply! i had "resource busy" come up, and i looked what was infront of my hard drive and mine said "Windows_NTFS" so if anyone else has the problem, try putting that instead of HFS.
@@BeccaW I tired replacing hfs with "Windows_NTFS", i tired "Apple_HFS" I tried "Microsoft Basic Data", and they all gave me " "No such file or directory"
@@osseo19 I'm getting the same thing, did you manage to fix the problem yet?
Really, made my day! Thanks a lot. Just removed external drive by unplugging yesterday and since then i was struggling to connect it back, now its up again :)
"Mount : /Volumes/usb failed with 1" Solution Please !!
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Same problem too!
hello, I´ve had the same problem, but found a solution...
try this way:
Not like in video with: sudo mount -t hfs /dev/disk2 /Volumes/usb/
My solution was to write just: sudo mount -t hfs /dev/disk2
@@ali9550 Hi, I have got following output when I tried your suggestion. usage: mount [-dfruvw] [-o options] [-t external_type] special mount_point
mount [-adfruvw] [-t external_type]
mount [-dfruvw] special | mount_point
@@ali9550 But still external usb is not mounting. Any suggestion, please let me know. I would be grateful. Thanks
Worked for me with MacOS Big Sur! Initially, I got the "failed with 1" response on the command line, so wasn't thinking it worked for me. But, I waited a little, and then restarted my iMac and the Drobo drive icon mounted and was usuable. Thanks so much, so awesome you took the time and trouble to make this video!
I copied your method exactly and received all the same messages, including the last "invalid argument" message but the drive still did not mount. I tried the unmounting and mounting commands from the other links from stackexchange in comments that someone mentioned but no luck there either. Help!
Same problem
Yep, me too. Not working. Done the same...
same
i took the suggestion from below @raina wang and it worked for me
Raina Wang
1 month ago
For those who is seeing this error, i've got a solution: run "diskutil list" again, and find the IDENTIFIER for your actual hard drive. Also open your Disk Utility, and look at the actual format of your disk. For example, my disk format is "ntfs", and identifier is "disk2s1". And then run "sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/disk2s1 /Volumes/usb". (Note, you need to use the correct format after -t and the path should be end with the disk identifier). This worked for me!
Hey man, much appreciated that you adress this problem. I followed your steps and were on the exact same track, until the moment I tried to search for already mounted volumes, whereas my external disc in fact showed up as mounted. Do you have any suggestions for the meaning of this?
Thank you. Saved my graduation Film!
Like so many others here, I am amazed and grateful. I didn't have much hope, but this worked. Well worth a $Thanks.
You are a legend man, thank you
Thank you so much. I was able to access an external hard drive that had hundreds of ole family photos and videos including the actual birth of my son! Now that I’m in, I’m working to get all of the data into iCloud so I never have to deal with this again! Thanks again!
I got this error though "mount: /Volumes/usb failed with 1"
What does it mean?
For those who is seeing this error, i've got a solution: run "diskutil list" again, and find the IDENTIFIER for your actual hard drive. Also open your Disk Utility, and look at the actual format of your disk. For example, my disk format is "ntfs", and identifier is "disk2s1". And then run "sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/disk2s1 /Volumes/usb". (Note, you need to use the correct format after -t and the path should be end with the disk identifier). This worked for me!
@@rainaw0924 ntfs is a windows format, isn't it? How did you do this on a mac????
@@luiscardenas9556 yeah it is, but for some reason my disk is formatted as ntfs, and I installed a software called Tuxera NTFS to make it work on Mac. It is a Toshiba hard drive.
@@rainaw0924 helpful!
@@rainaw0924 I did change the format but now it shows failed with 65. any idea of what it could be? thank you
Thank you! After a MacBook pro failed to book, I kept trying to mount it to my mac mini in target disk mode, but the disk would not mount. Command line tools and disk utility would not mount the drive. The instructions in your video finally mounted the drive!
HEY YO! I need you to tell me how to undo this?! It screwed up my hard drive and now it won’t work
Thanks, saved me from telling my wife about lost files and family pictures. Absolutely life saver.
I keep getting this:
mount_hfs: error on mount(): error = -1.
Same problem did you gind a way to fix it ?
i can't tell you how appreciative i am for this post as it fixed my problem. The 'experts' lectured me and told me to reformat my hard drive. Thank you.
I got the following:
mount_hfs: error on mount(): error = -1.
mount_hfs: Invalid argument
mount: /Volumes/usb failed with 1
and nothing showing up on desktop
what do I do next please?
same problem. Have you find the solution?
same issue here
@ me too
@@afnandaba6561 i took the suggestion from below @raina wang and it worked for me
Raina Wang
1 month ago
For those who is seeing this error, i've got a solution: run "diskutil list" again, and find the IDENTIFIER for your actual hard drive. Also open your Disk Utility, and look at the actual format of your disk. For example, my disk format is "ntfs", and identifier is "disk2s1". And then run "sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/disk2s1 /Volumes/usb". (Note, you need to use the correct format after -t and the path should be end with the disk identifier). This worked for me!
I literally can not thank you enough! I have tried everything and thought I lost 20 YEARS and 3TB of my kids lives plus family, friends and professional photos I have taken!!! You are amazing! If you can recommend any online photo storage for someone who has done personal and some professional photography over the years, please advise me! I am so sick of being at the mercy of these drives going down.
Again, THANK YOU SOOOO VERY MUCH!!!
Thank you so much! I was trying to figure out when I ran across your tutorial. It worked GREAT!. Your presentation is clear and simple.
When I used the first command to mount, it worked perfectly! THANK YOU!
mine does not shows on diskutil list :(
Thank you so so much! Doing this allowed my LaCie to mount and my previous file to appear. Fear that I lost my huge file averted! So once I typed in my new name for my drive, "LaCie" it then created it and then mounted the previous drive also by its original name, also "LaCie". So now "LaCie" & "LaCie 1" are present. Clicked on the original now mounted drive, success! File is back! Drive mounted. You the best!🖤🙆♀️
This was the only thing that worked, thank you!
Thank you isn't enough for the time you saved me having to recreat 2TB of lost documents due to a power surge. I prayed to God to help me find a way to fix this problem and then I found your very clear and concise video. Thank you 😊 for your help!
@VidGva External drive that I had accidentally left some parts unbacked up. There was a power surge and my surge protector failed, fried the external drive.
For people who are getting resource as busy, go to disk utility again>select the drive>click mount and wait for 5-10 minutes.
TML!
Nope. I get this: DiskMangement.disenter.error - but I kept the drive plugged in while I researched that, and it FINALLY worked. Maybe 20 minutes total of waiting including that error message.
@@sparkconsciousness you kept the error message up or dismissed it?
@@UnderMyHatAdventures Pretty sure I closed it. I know I made a note of it so I could research it, but I was so frustrated by that point, I'm not 100% sure if I kept it up. Knowing me, though, I probably closed it and walked off to cool down.
@@sparkconsciousness Well I'm definitely to that point! A work project is on this hard drive and it worked fine last night! Hoping just leaving it for a while works like it did for you.
@@UnderMyHatAdventures Oh goodness! Good luck! Definitely leave it plugged into the port for a bit and see what happens. Make yourself a cuppa and walk away from it. Maybe that's the secret!
Awesome! I was able to mount my external drive by following the input on the terminal as this video guides! Time saver!
mount: /Volumes/usb failed with 1
Same here, wonder Gemsbok can advice and help us on this issue.
what about the actual internal Mac Hdd if not showing into disk utility? Can be used the same method without losing the data?
I got the error but the drive still didn't mount.... =(
try this if you haven't fixed your problem. Hope it helps
apple.stackexchange.com/questions/235309/external-drive-does-not-mount-after-plug-off-without-eject
Basically the HD needs to be told to unmounted first then ejected. This is the part in the article I found that worked. Where it says /dev/disk2 you need to ensure you type what YOUR HD is called that isn't ejecting/mounting/headache. Hope this helps like it helped me.
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
diskutil eject /dev/disk2
The first time it worked perfectly, but the second time "Resource busy" appears or it doesn't work. Any recommendation? I thought I had finally found the solution to this problem and I still have information to recover on the external hard drive.
Thank you very much
ever find a solution to this?
this video is the best thing to solve this problem , save it and gonna return always. thank u so much
Thanks for the video! I followed everything in the video, but in the end I dont see the drive.. is there something else I could do?
Thanks for taking the time do make this amazing video, I tried everything and so many tutorials, this one fixes my issue. Congrats. Just subscribed. :)
Well, I know this video is a few years old now, but still relevant and what a life saver. Thank you so much. I have another old external HDD that would never mount so I will try this on that as well. Thanks again!
Good video. Why does this happen every time I put a drive in? Are my ports damages?
I've plug out my external drive without pressing "eject" and just by taking out the usb cable. And after that, I couldn't see it anymore for 2 days. My heart sank because i had a lot of important data there. And this tutorial was the only way I recover it. Thank you so much. Such a relief.
Omg thank you so much! I can't believe it actually worked! Had a ton of backed up files and movies save from years of work. So happy I didn't lose all my files! 😌🙏🏻
Hi Sir THANKS so much for this very easy and detail steps by steps guide 👍🏼 with gladness and appreciation from mac user from Malaysia 🇲🇾
Helpful video! Everything seemed to work in terminal until the very end when i got the answer "failed with 1". Does anyone know what that means?
This is incredibly helpful. Is the process the same for external raid devices? I've gone through the process but the drive goes to sleep after 30 min or so. I've let it sit for a couple hours but it hasn't mounted so far. If the process is different for a raid I'm curious and thankful to know.
It's cool and nice your intention to teach us and it's also been a great help, but commands you write in terminal can't be seen and I had to figure it out what you wrote. Thanks and I will appreciate if you edit the video for others to understand your teaching.
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH FOR THIS! Mine ended up working by putting Windows_NTFS instead of HFS. But thank you for the easy step by step follow through of this! Helped so much!
do you have a mac or windows computer? would this also work on a mac?
Casey Pflipsen I have a Mac
@@BeccaW okay okay
Hi- for a Raid 0 system (i have 3 ssds in raid 0 config, in one OWC thunderbay via thunderbolt connection) - what commands i must use to force mounting them? cause suddenly i am unable to mount the raid anymore - i have 6 tb with all my work there... i am ruined if i cant access it anymore - Please help!
thank you! i've heard the WD HD's are notorious for these problems, which is what mine is. This is the only solution that worked.
The only video that worked! THANKYOU THANKYOU!!!!
THANK YOU!!! Works amazingly, thought I had corrupted files on my external. I tried everything!! Finally your tutorial worked and my External is in no risk of being needed to erase. Very clear and helpful!
Glad it helped!
@@GemsbokAppleTipsandTricks hey! I actually had the same problem today!!! I went though all the steps in the tutorial but around the end. I did “sudo mount -t hfs /dev/disk2 /Volumes/usb/ and it had a different error reply!
mount_hfs: error on mount(): error = -1.
mount hfs: Resource busy
mount: /Volumes/usb failed with 1
If there’s anyway to fix this please let me know!!! Thank you!!!
@@GemsbokAppleTipsandTricks here’s my first aid report on the external:
Running First Aid on “John's Hard Drive” (disk3)
Verifying storage system
Performing fsck_cs -n -x --lv --uuid A588571B-B732-41CB-B266-76655BF37DDD
Checking volume
disk2s2: Scan for Volume Headers
disk2s2: Scan for Disk Labels
Logical Volume Group A588571B-B732-41CB-B266-76655BF37DDD on 1 device
disk2s2: Scan for Metadata Volume
Logical Volume Group has a 24 MB Metadata Volume with double redundancy
Start scanning metadata for a valid checkpoint
Load and verify Segment Headers
Load and verify Checkpoint Payload
Load and verify Transaction Segment
Incorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactions
Load and verify Virtual Address Table
Load and verify Segment Usage Table
Load and verify Metadata Superblock
Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees
Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume
Load and verify 0517A99E-7EDA-4239-A075-0AA8906D8B22
Load and verify 4D676DC8-1528-45B5-A071-4F51291723CE
Load and verify Freespace Summary
Load and verify Block Accounting
Load and verify Live Virtual Addresses
Newest transaction commit checkpoint is valid
Load and verify Segment Cleaning
The volume A588571B-B732-41CB-B266-76655BF37DDD appears to be OK
Storage system check exit code is 0.
Repairing file system.
Volume is already unmounted.
Performing fsck_hfs -fy -x /dev/rdisk3
File system check exit code is 8.
Restoring the original state found as unmounted.
File system verify or repair failed. : (-69845)
Operation failed…
@@xjohnjohnjohnx I have same issue, did you resolve?
@@xjohnjohnjohnx I have the same issue
thx a lot. Worked for me with MacOS Catalina. Initially, I got the "failed with 1" response and reason = busy, so wasn't thinking it worked for me. But, I waited a little, and then drive icon mounted and was usuable.
Thank you this fixed the issue. Very clear and concise instructions.
Thanks for the video. It is very clear and the comments show that it really works. I got the same error as you got, but unfortunately my hdd is not mounted like yours! What should I do?
You could try rebooting and doing it again. If it still won't mount, it could be that the hardware is failing.
I got an error from this, and didn't look to see if it was mounted yet. ran "sudo diskutil mount -mountpoint /Volumes/usb /dev/disk2s2" and ONE of them worked. I ejected the disk, and plugged it back in and it mounted by itself no problem. Thanks!
OMG!!! You just saved my 5TB drive…THANK YOU!!! By the way…I was just about to tear my hair out when I remembered that you said it might take a minute. This took more than a minute. It took more like five before it showed up. But it did. And the first time I got the error = -1 thing. The second time, I got rid of the space between /dev/disk2 and the rest of the path, and that got rid of the error. Liked and subbed!!!
You're welcome! I'm really glad it helped you.
Great video! I have a "WD My Passport for Mac" that blinks but does not show up on Disk Util or running the terminal diskutil list... is there anything else you suggest I can do? Thx in advance !
I always see people saying things have worked for them and ive never been one of them....i cried when my HDD just stoped working......i was trying all of the methods i came across but none work.....id like to thank you for these terminal codes as i was able to bring back mt drive from the dead....im monitoring it now and will advise.
WILL BE BACKING IT UP TODAY
THANK YOU
Thank you so much your video tutorial save my day as I'm in the middle of deadline. BRAVO !!
Thanks, great info here. I was all ready to do the force mount, had typed out ".../Volumes/usb/" , was just about to hit enter, then a mac message pops up saying "the external drive cannot be repaired"...haha but at least it was suddenly being recognized! Was suddenly showing up on the desktop and finder. It may be that just leaving the external drive in for a while made things "wake up" a bit..?
Did all of this in Terminal and I'm getting a message telling me that the error is mount_hfs: resource busy. Any idea what this might be?
did you ever find a solve for this?
Same here
This tip is out of this world! Saved my drive (and all the content) and showed me something I didn't know. Thank you!!!!!!!!
It worked! Thank you!!! But you realy have to wait 1-2 hours.
GGGGreat video!! The GUI would not mount my ExFat 5TB drive and it had years of files. Thank, please redo this video to show up in UA-cam as a newer then 3 years because the step saved me from running into traffic tonight (joke)!!!
Thanks for the tip, worked a charm and saved the day! Have subscribed to your channel.
Thank you for your video. Unfortunately, my 1 TB SSD external HD doesn't even show up in Disk Utility (MacBook Pro 2011) nor in the diskutil list in my terminal. But it does show up like normal on my other MacBook Pro 2012 screen when I plug it in (same cable). Any advice on what could be the issue? The USB ports on the 2011 work fine with other devices. Thank you very much!
Hey, I got the same error you did but my HD didn't appear on the screen like in your case. Did you happen to know what the error was and how to remedy that. :) I really do need a bit of help.
Thanks
I tried it again with the suggestion of changing hfs to Microsoft Basic Data and it worked! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I had this problem months ago and I did similar things but they didn't work till I combined a few different tutorials. This worked for me great and it was easier as well...
You Saved My Life Bro, Literally!! Cannot lie, don't want to have to use this again but so so so helpful you cannot believe!
thank you so much, gonna save this for the future in case it happens again, it was most helpful
Thank you so much!! I tried so many actions before this one, and it finally worked!!
Hello, I tried this, but I get a failed comment.
Resource busy
mount: /Volumes/usb failed with 1
Any idea what this means? I thought Macs were simple?!
Thanks for your help.
did u find a solution?
You the man I swear! Thank you so much. This didn’t work but the iBoy software did, thank you a million times!
You're very welcome!
Hello, loved your video but my external drive still is not on my desktop... nor is in finder. It’s faded grey in the disk utility. What should I do now?