Today, after inserting the hard disk into the macbook, I found that there is no way to open the mobile hard disk. After some careful investigation, I finally solved this problem. The following is a brief description of why the macbook cannot open the mobile hard disk, and why the mobile hard disk cannot be displayed on the mac.
1. The macbook cannot open the mobile hard disk
Macbook currently supports reading most of the common mobile hard disk formats on the market. Double-click the mobile hard disk icon on the macbook to directly open the hard disk to view the contents of the hard disk. If it cannot be opened, you need to repair the error of the mobile hard disk.
1. Enter the Utilities folder in the Mac application, click "Disk Utility" to open Mac Disk Utility.
Figure 1: Disk Utility
2. In Disk Utility, the hard disk list is displayed on the left, the specific information of the currently selected hard disk is displayed on the right, and the function bar is provided above. On the premise of selecting the mobile hard disk that cannot be opened, use the "First Aid" tool in the upper function bar to perform emergency recovery on the mobile hard disk.
Figure 2: Perform first aid on the hard drive
3. During the first aid process, the hard disk will be temporarily locked and unable to read and write to the hard disk. Click "Expand Details" to view the progress of the current first aid until it displays "Operation Successful" to indicate completion. At this time, you can try to open the previously unopenable files. Mobile hard drive.
Figure 3: First aid progress display
2. Why the mobile hard disk cannot be displayed on the mac
If the icon is not displayed after the mobile hard disk is inserted on the mac, there may be the following reasons.
1. Mac settings problem. The Mac system allows users to customize whether to display the mobile hard disk icon in the Finder settings. When this setting is turned off, the mobile hard disk will naturally not be displayed.
Click Finder Preferences, check "External Disk" in the "General" setting to enable the mobile hard disk display function.
Figure 4: General Settings
2. There is a problem with the software driver for reading NTFS. For the NTFS format, Mac users need to install the NTFS software plug-in to read and write. When the installed driver plug-in is faulty, it will cause the plug-in mobile hard disk to fail to display, and it cannot be repaired after reinstalling. At this time, you can consider installing other NTFS software. solve.
More reliable software such as Tuxera NTFS For Mac, the software will automatically install the NTFS plug-in, after installation, you can read the NTFS mobile hard disk.
Figure 5: Tuxera NTFS For Mac software
Of course, Mac users need to enable full disk access permissions for Tuxera Disk Manager in "Security and Privacy".
Figure 6: Full Disk Access
Tuxera NTFS for Mac 2022 installation package: https://souurl.cn/fIerPb
The above is an answer article about why the macbook cannot open the mobile hard disk, why the mobile hard disk cannot be displayed on the mac. Regardless of the above situations, the first thing to do is to rule out whether the hard disk itself is faulty, and then to rule out the settings or permissions of the Mac system. Finally, it is recommended to use the Tuxera NTFS For Mac management tool for unified management of the hard disk.