@@askkotso7241 Sounds like its a counterfeit SD card, they are very common now. I would stop that transfer, connect an external hard disk drive or SSD that you know to be good and try again, just to make sure that everything else is OK.
Restart the system. If you keep getting these errors that usually means you have some 3rd party software installed that is interfering with the operating system. They usually are installed into utility folder, try to find it and uninstall it, software like Tuxera NTFS or Mounty App
@@askkotso7241 Test it on a different system, it really has the symptoms of a counterfeit card, if you verify that its the system then boot up in Safe Mode and try again, if it then works then its a third party extension or an app that you added which is causing the problem.
It was working fine but after i unplugged my hard drive and tried to open it again my hard is empty. Please help me to fix it? I don’t want loose my wedding video 😢😢😢
You are the best! Everyone is talking about how to transfer to external hardrive but if the grey things is there..... nobody was talking about this issue . Thanks a lot!
You are precious, I've been trying to figure this out all day, from going on the terminal and typing in endless things to trying to give myself permission to write on the hard drive. I can't believe how simple this was! Thank you, you've earned yourself a subscriber
OMG!!!!! I have searched far and wide for a solution to this exact problem on my Seagate External Backup Drive. Seagate itself did not have this from anywhere I could find it....this has been THE only video that gave me the information I needed. Thank you soooo very much-beyond words!!
It worked! Thank you so much for this tutorial. I was getting really frustrated with this issue and I thought it would be a much bigger pain in the ass to fix than it actually was. This video was a life saver, very easy to follow, even for those of us who can be a little technologically challenged. Thank you again!
the portion of the video that works great is "Format the drive to be ExFAT Format". Fixed the issue right away and I was able to put the photos and videos directly on the external drive. AWESOME!!!
I tried reformatting on the mac but it said “erase failed” so i plugged it back into my Windows pc and it automatically asked to format it to ExFat. Few clicks, plugged it back into my mac and it works great. Am able to transfer! Thanks so much!
As someone that knows just enough to be destructive this video keeps me grounded. I am a fairly new Mac user and this problem has haunted me. I have searched for solutions but finally i have found it, thank you. Great video, very intuitive and very simple. I appreciate what you do.
this works you might get an error that drive is unmountable you have to plug it back in windows computer. safely remove drive plug back in mac. in mounty do remount
Saved my life!! My MacBook disc was completely full and I could not delete anything. I had my external drive but I could never figure out how to transfer my files until now! Thanks a lot!
I literally had a video meant to go up tomorrow and it wasn’t saving coz my disk was full and I was worried coz my hard drive wasn’t taking the file in but thank god ur video helped
This was so incredibly helpful- I was reading articles and watching videos for close to two hours. After I watched this video it took me 15 minutes. Thank you so much!
Thank you, still relevant in late 2023. Reformatting drive to ExFAT worked simply and immediately. As he says, just make sure you are okay with losing anything already on the external drive.
I am having that same issue. Not sure where to store them as my external hard drive has almost one TB used and I don’t have a lot of storage on my laptop to store them when formatting.
Hey, thank you for the tips! I've downloaded the mounty app, but when i tried to re-mounted my external disk, it said that my external disk isn't re-mountable. Do u know how to fix this? Thank you
@@GRIBSOFT I just did both but the drive still appears to be empty, showing no folders once I open it up. I had photos from the last 15 years on there!
Based on my experience, it sounds like the drive was already compromised. I'll put it this way, if you take a dying patient to the hospital and they don't survive, the doctors didn't kill them. You can try other software to try and recover files if they have been corrupt. Take a look at this video, and I promise this will be a big chance to get all your stuff back ua-cam.com/video/rb19xM4egzQ/v-deo.html
bruh thankyou so much i couldnt copy files from my hardrive over to my new macbook m1 pro, but this video has changed that and now i can finally put my files onto my new mac! You the real MVP Bruh.
You saved my life. Thanks a lot! I had to get some information because my LG smart TV wasn't reading my exFAT formatted flash drive. I had to make it NTFS but when I tried to transfer files from my hard drive to my flash drive in MAC, I got that gray circle with line in the middle. So frustrating! But your video saved me. Thanks a lot!
I am Windows user since 86 and I bought Macpro.I thougt plug in play. I was WRONG. That is why. When I was buying a Flash drive on the instruction said Os and Windows compatible. The video is helpful and educational. Thank you very much
Thank You! That was a simple fix. I knew about reformatting, but I didn't want to spend the time transferring the content back and forth. Lots of stuff on the drive. Mounty did the trick. I really appreciate the video.
THANK YOU! You have saved my life, trying to put all of my photos on an external hard drive before I get my new laptop tomorrow. First I thought this was an issue with the hard drive, but you have saved me! Thank you!
You just saved my day. Just subscribed. It took me a week to come across your site and solved the same problem I have with my newly bought WD drive. Thanks
hey thanks brother, you really saved me big time. i was about to crush my hard drive and or macbook because i do not know where the problem lies but this video saved me. thanks once again
This is the best video I watched about this so far! I've been having so much trouble with this and the tutorials online make me even more confused. You're awesome. Thank you!
Wow. Thank you so much for this video.. asked so many people on Reddit and nobody helped. Came across this vid and it was the exact issue I was facing! God bless
Thank you so much. You've really help me a lot. I brought my laptop to the office seeking help on our IT but unfortunately, he is not familiar with MAC. So when I encountered your tutorial video.. I was very happy that even I can do it. Thanks a lot again.
Alex, this video was very helpful and it worked. I was having trouble saving onto my external hard drive - was ready to purchase another when I thought I'd do a little investigation first and found your video. 👍 🤗 Thank you!
Incredible you really really helped me. I was afraid that this was one of those videos where there’s a catch but not at all. It is June 15th 2021 and this method still works thank you.
Thanks so much for creating this video! Had an external hard drive that I had in college that I used on Windows to store photos and I am trying to store documents on it from a Mac now. I was so afraid I was no longer able to use the hard drive when I used barely 1GB out of a 500GB hard drive! Such a life saver!
Incredible!!! Trying to download Elder Scrolls onto my external hard drive to play on my new MacBook, and this worked and was so easy to do! So thank you! If anyone is wondering if it is *really* worth it to back up your files that you already have on the external hard drive, YES. I just backed up my favourites in order to get rid of all of my old stuff and this process did in fact erase everything off of the original drive. That might be obvious to some but it wasn't to me, so I am glad this guy said I should do the backup!!!
Thanks a lot!! I have used quick fox for now. After having backup will certainly go ahead fir permanent fix.. Thanks again for detailed explanation and easy video representation.
If there are 2 seperate folders showing your disk drive, make sure to try both of them. I kept getting an error message on the first one. Thanks for the video!
OMgarsh... thank you. My heart sank as I was transferring old photos and research notes from my old dell to the external, the external to my MAC and then the external crashed on me. Bought a new external and *heart sank* I couldn't transfer my files. This was quick and easy. Thank you!
Girl your a blessing as i have been trying for ages on how to transfer my folders of photos to the new external hard drive. As my new Imac pro seems to have no space anymore when I just bought few months ago. Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you very much or i say a million
Thank you very much! really helped i have been gettign very annoyed as every other troubleshoot i have found still doesn't work. Finally i can get my files again!
This is a cool little trick to keep in mind. bought a ssd from where I work and while it had been formatted to ensure it was clear of data before sale. It was stuck on ntfs. Shall see if there is a specific reason we don't set them to ExFat other than I suspect time efficiency. And see if it's something that we can implement.
Very good! This is definitely an excellent, useful, tip. Thank you!
Thank you!
@@askkotso7241 Sounds like its a counterfeit SD card, they are very common now. I would stop that transfer, connect an external hard disk drive or SSD that you know to be good and try again, just to make sure that everything else is OK.
Restart the system. If you keep getting these errors that usually means you have some 3rd party software installed that is interfering with the operating system. They usually are installed into utility folder, try to find it and uninstall it, software like Tuxera NTFS or Mounty App
@@askkotso7241 Test it on a different system, it really has the symptoms of a counterfeit card, if you verify that its the system then boot up in Safe Mode and try again, if it then works then its a third party extension or an app that you added which is causing the problem.
It was working fine but after i unplugged my hard drive and tried to open it again my hard is empty. Please help me to fix it? I don’t want loose my wedding video 😢😢😢
Buddy, I finally found somebody who knows how to explain something complicated in a very easy way. You fixed my problem. Thank you!
You are the best! Everyone is talking about how to transfer to external hardrive but if the grey things is there..... nobody was talking about this issue . Thanks a lot!
It’s 6 am and I was panicking for hours and this guy literally just saved me!
I've struggled with this issue for months and you were super clear and helpful to get it solved. Thank you!
You are precious, I've been trying to figure this out all day, from going on the terminal and typing in endless things to trying to give myself permission to write on the hard drive. I can't believe how simple this was! Thank you, you've earned yourself a subscriber
OMG!!!!! I have searched far and wide for a solution to this exact problem on my Seagate External Backup Drive. Seagate itself did not have this from anywhere I could find it....this has been THE only video that gave me the information I needed. Thank you soooo very much-beyond words!!
It worked! Thank you so much for this tutorial. I was getting really frustrated with this issue and I thought it would be a much bigger pain in the ass to fix than it actually was. This video was a life saver, very easy to follow, even for those of us who can be a little technologically challenged. Thank you again!
the portion of the video that works great is "Format the drive to be ExFAT Format". Fixed the issue right away and I was able to put the photos and videos directly on the external drive. AWESOME!!!
I tried reformatting on the mac but it said “erase failed” so i plugged it back into my Windows pc and it automatically asked to format it to ExFat. Few clicks, plugged it back into my mac and it works great. Am able to transfer! Thanks so much!
As someone that knows just enough to be destructive this video keeps me grounded. I am a fairly new Mac user and this problem has haunted me. I have searched for solutions but finally i have found it, thank you. Great video, very intuitive and very simple. I appreciate what you do.
this works
you might get an error that drive is unmountable
you have to plug it back in windows computer. safely remove drive
plug back in mac. in mounty do remount
Absolute legend! I was about to give up until I read your comment!
thank u soo much. even i was about to give up until i saw ur suggestion
Legend man
You just saved me !!!!
You saved me !!!!!!
trolled the internet for ages trying to sort this and this was here all along. fair play 👍👍👍👍👍
THANK YOU SOO MUCH!! you dont know how many times I had a meltdown over this, and i finally solved the problem thanks to u!
A new mac user here, got frustrated how to transfer my files from my external until i found your vid.. helps a lot! Thanks!
Saved me, thanks so much! I had to restart my computer after installing to get Mounty to work, this might be the case for others.
Saved my life!! My MacBook disc was completely full and I could not delete anything. I had my external drive but I could never figure out how to transfer my files until now! Thanks a lot!
I literally had a video meant to go up tomorrow and it wasn’t saving coz my disk was full and I was worried coz my hard drive wasn’t taking the file in but thank god ur video helped
This was so incredibly helpful- I was reading articles and watching videos for close to two hours. After I watched this video it took me 15 minutes. Thank you so much!
Thanks! You're a lifesaver. Finally got my seagate to work with my MacBook Pro again.
Thank you, still relevant in late 2023. Reformatting drive to ExFAT worked simply and immediately. As he says, just make sure you are okay with losing anything already on the external drive.
Thank you so much, five years after purchasing my 3TB external drive it's finally well formatted for reading and writing on all operating systems.
Awesome vid, where do you recommend me back up all the files I have in my hard disk if I don't have enough storage to keep it in my desktop? Thanks
I am having that same issue. Not sure where to store them as my external hard drive has almost one TB used and I don’t have a lot of storage on my laptop to store them when formatting.
Same happened to me just then. PLEASE HELP!
i literally just got a new hard disk for this
Really appreciated. I bought a new portable SSD, it wasn't not able to save anything. I followed your instruction, it is working now. THANKS!
Mate you just saved my album- cheers!
Welcome
I’m new to MacOS and I’ve been struggling with such minor irritating issues, thank you very much for your detailed explanations… you’re a life saver
I get "no NTFS Volumes to re-mount"
I get the same thing too 😐😐😐😐
@@ConVersaa I get hard disk non remountable!!!WTF!!!
I've never commented anything on UA-cam, but I do really need to say THANK YOU. I was going crazy for days, trying to figured it out!!!
Hey, thank you for the tips! I've downloaded the mounty app, but when i tried to re-mounted my external disk, it said that my external disk isn't re-mountable. Do u know how to fix this? Thank you
i also have the problem :( can some body please assist @save apple dollars please reply
just had the same problem. and now it won't let me delete this stupid app cause apparently it's open all the time. This was a total waste of time...
See BlackOut GStar 's comment down below, worked for me.
@@candycolor10 Same thing happened to me. I restarted my computer to reset everything and then I was able to delete the app.
Thank you SO MUCH! I am a college Graphic Design student / professional and this helped me so much! You are a life saver! Much Kudos to you!
Hey After I mounted Mounty I lost all files on my hard drive why is that? is there anyway I can get my files back? Please help.. Very Urgent!!!
Same!! I AM SO UPSET EVERYTHING IS GONE
Uninstall mounty and remount the drive from disk utility. Don’t worry you didn’t loose anything, mounty will not wipe your drive.
Mounty is just a mounting utility, it doesn’t modify your hard drive in any way.
@@GRIBSOFT I just did both but the drive still appears to be empty, showing no folders once I open it up. I had photos from the last 15 years on there!
@@jesuisnickie1252 Did you get your photos back? Mounty can corrupt your drive. better not to use it
I wish everybody else would explain things in such simple yet informative manner. THANK YOU!
Mounty corrupted my external :( and all the files disappeared :(
uh oh
Based on my experience, it sounds like the drive was already compromised. I'll put it this way, if you take a dying patient to the hospital and they don't survive, the doctors didn't kill them. You can try other software to try and recover files if they have been corrupt. Take a look at this video, and I promise this will be a big chance to get all your stuff back ua-cam.com/video/rb19xM4egzQ/v-deo.html
That’s what I’m worried about. I don’t have another place to backup my external yet
My brother, you have saved this baby UA-camr hours of effort and frustration. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Imagine having to Google "how to move a file to a SD card"
The absolute state of Apple and its rabid fans.
i was so lazy that i didn't check out for a solution for not being able to write on a hard drive for 3 years . thank you
bruh thankyou so much i couldnt copy files from my hardrive over to my new macbook m1 pro, but this video has changed that and now i can finally put my files onto my new mac! You the real MVP Bruh.
You saved my life. Thanks a lot! I had to get some information because my LG smart TV wasn't reading my exFAT formatted flash drive. I had to make it NTFS but when I tried to transfer files from my hard drive to my flash drive in MAC, I got that gray circle with line in the middle. So frustrating! But your video saved me. Thanks a lot!
I am Windows user since 86 and I bought Macpro.I thougt plug in play. I was WRONG. That is why. When I was buying a Flash drive on the instruction said Os and Windows compatible. The video is helpful and educational. Thank you very much
Thank You! That was a simple fix.
I knew about reformatting, but I didn't want to spend the time transferring the content back and forth. Lots of stuff on the drive. Mounty did the trick. I really appreciate the video.
THANK YOU! You have saved my life, trying to put all of my photos on an external hard drive before I get my new laptop tomorrow. First I thought this was an issue with the hard drive, but you have saved me! Thank you!
I followed all the steps and Mounty just formatted my whole external drive while copying a folder. wow!
The best video to know how to fix drive's problem on Mac on UA-cam. Thanks 🙏🏻💚
Mounty didn't work for me on Mac High Sierra 10.13.6, but the ExFAT solution worked like charm. Thank you!
thank you so much for this, if anyone is struggling with finding the way to remount the folder on version 11 or 12 it’s in the top toolbar btw 😊
You just saved my day. Just subscribed. It took me a week to come across your site and solved the same problem I have with my newly bought WD drive. Thanks
hey thanks brother, you really saved me big time. i was about to crush my hard drive and or macbook because i do not know where the problem lies but this video saved me. thanks once again
Life saver!! I've been sitting on this new 2T hard drive for months now. You've made my life just a little bit easier, thank you!
This is the best video I watched about this so far! I've been having so much trouble with this and the tutorials online make me even more confused. You're awesome. Thank you!
Wow. Thank you so much for this video.. asked so many people on Reddit and nobody helped. Came across this vid and it was the exact issue I was facing! God bless
Had this problem after formatting a spare drive with windows. I followed your video and it worked perfectly. Thanks for your help. Am subscribing now.
I just installed this (Dec 2022) and it worked perfectly. Many many thanks for the help.
Can't believe how easy Mounty made this. Sent a donation. Thx!
Excellent vide0 for novice computer users! Saved my life! Thanks soooo much!!!!
I was just about to spent $100 on a new eternal hard drive - you saved my ass. Thanks bud!
Thank you bro! It saved me from deleting all my memories that I had for over a decade! Appreciate your video!
OMG Thanks you so much! I thought I wasted £45 until I found your video! Problem fixed! Can't thanks you enough!
Thank you so much. You've really help me a lot. I brought my laptop to the office seeking help on our IT but unfortunately, he is not familiar with MAC. So when I encountered your tutorial video.. I was very happy that even I can do it. Thanks a lot again.
Alex, this video was very helpful and it worked. I was having trouble saving onto my external hard drive - was ready to purchase another when I thought I'd do a little investigation first and found your video. 👍 🤗 Thank you!
Incredible you really really helped me. I was afraid that this was one of those videos where there’s a catch but not at all. It is June 15th 2021 and this method still works thank you.
I spent an hour and a half on the internet and your video is the only one that helped me ! Thank you!
Thanks so much for creating this video! Had an external hard drive that I had in college that I used on Windows to store photos and I am trying to store documents on it from a Mac now. I was so afraid I was no longer able to use the hard drive when I used barely 1GB out of a 500GB hard drive! Such a life saver!
Thanks. You saved me the cost of buying a new flash drive. Excellent tutorial.
Incredible!!! Trying to download Elder Scrolls onto my external hard drive to play on my new MacBook, and this worked and was so easy to do! So thank you!
If anyone is wondering if it is *really* worth it to back up your files that you already have on the external hard drive, YES. I just backed up my favourites in order to get rid of all of my old stuff and this process did in fact erase everything off of the original drive. That might be obvious to some but it wasn't to me, so I am glad this guy said I should do the backup!!!
Thanks a lot!! I have used quick fox for now.
After having backup will certainly go ahead fir permanent fix..
Thanks again for detailed explanation and easy video representation.
You are a life saver! Using a 12TB and 5TB for movies. Going to need to find a bigger hard before doing the format
Finally someone knows what he’s talking about he make it easier than what you expected it was very helpful thanks 🙏
It really worked for me after I look and try some tutorials, yours is the one that worked. Owe you a lot.
If there are 2 seperate folders showing your disk drive, make sure to try both of them. I kept getting an error message on the first one. Thanks for the video!
You just saved me from purchasing new hard drive. Thank you thank you thank you. God bless you
U SIR ARE A LIFESAVERRRRRR!!!!!
IMMA WATCH THIS VIDEO AGAIN AND AGAIN AND NOT EVEN SKIP THE ADS!!!!!!1
thank you so much , I managed to solve the issue, I formatted the external disc and now I can move files from my Mac to the ext disc 🙂
OMgarsh... thank you. My heart sank as I was transferring old photos and research notes from my old dell to the external, the external to my MAC and then the external crashed on me. Bought a new external and *heart sank* I couldn't transfer my files. This was quick and easy. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this video! I have multiple hard drives that I just could never put anything on, this fixed the issue for me :)
Beautiful content which I needed and even service center failed to fix
Dude, you’re literally saviour of the realm ! You had me in the first half. Thanks a ton
Thought I was gonna have to return my 4TB hard disk before coming across this video. Thanks so much.
thank you sooo much for this video, it saves my life
Thanks for the how-to fix, as well as the whys behind the fixes. Particularly the ExFAT info.
just got my first hard drive for my cinematography class since ill be filming a lot, this solved my issue thank you so much!
Super Useful! Quick and to the point. Solved my saving and formatting issue. Best thing to happen with work today!
Thanks. Reformatting the disk to exFat worked like a charm.
Thank you so much!!! I had my hard drive set up with windows and just got a Mac and couldn’t figure it out! This helped thank u!!
Girl your a blessing as i have been trying for ages on how to transfer my folders of photos to the new external hard drive. As my new Imac pro seems to have no space anymore when I just bought few months ago. Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you very much or i say a million
thank you so much I was so confused as to why my drive wouldn't except my files and photos. This really helped 👍.
Thanks very much. This video dug me out of a hole today, after a couple of hours of pulling my hair out.
Thank you very much! really helped i have been gettign very annoyed as every other troubleshoot i have found still doesn't work. Finally i can get my files again!
This just saved me a major headache. Thank you!
Wow thanks so much i can finally get to insert my presentation for an ICT exam. thanks dude.
This is a cool little trick to keep in mind. bought a ssd from where I work and while it had been formatted to ensure it was clear of data before sale. It was stuck on ntfs. Shall see if there is a specific reason we don't set them to ExFat other than I suspect time efficiency. And see if it's something that we can implement.
Yes. How concise, efficient, uncomplicated, and informative! Thank you!
Good job! - many thanks.
First time I get something done with one tutorial.
Thanks a lot, very useful and well explained!
Very helpful! Thanks! I finally made all of my hard drives work with mac.
10⭐️ rated! You’re genius! One of the best UA-camrs so far! You helped!
That was helpful, still working in 2022! Big big thank you! The Mac has Big Sur 11.6.7 on it and I got a Seagate OneTouch 5GB.
Thank you so much for the help!! Really appreciate the clear and easy to understand instructions, didn't feel like my head was gonna explode
THIS is exactly what I needed, and you explained it so simply with extremely helpful step-by-step visual instructions. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you very much for this video. I was trying to find a way to copy my files to my external hard and came across this. Super helpful. Thanks
brother I'm not going to subscribe because computers are boring but this was very helpful. thank you