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1. Mac os disk utility not showing main hard drive mac os#
2. Mac os disk utility not showing main hard drive drivers#

Pick a letter for your drive and you should be good to go. In Disk Management, just right-click on the disk and choose Change Drive Letter and Paths. Normally, Windows does this automatically, but sometimes because of other connected devices, your external hard drive will be recognized, but not have any drive letter assigned to it. If the drive shows up here, but not in Windows Explorer, you might have to assign a drive letter to the disk. In order to figure out whether your problem is related to formatting or to not being recognized, go to Disk Management in Windows or Disk Utility on OS X and see if the drive shows up there.

Mac os disk utility not showing main hard drive drivers#

This is usually a problem with drivers or hardware. The other main reason is that the drive simply is not being recognized by Windows or Mac and therefore won’t even show up on your system at all. In this article, I’ll try to go through the different solutions on Mac and Windows for fixing this issue. How the drive is formatted and what file system is being used is the most common reason why drive is not recognized. Sometimes the fix is easy and sometimes it is a bit more complicated. It can also happen on a single system where it was working just fine for a long time and then suddenly stops being recognized by the operating system.

Mac os disk utility not showing main hard drive mac os#

Mac or Windows computer not recognizing your external hard drive or flash drive? This is a common problem, especially when connecting hard drives between Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.