Why doesn't my Macbook see my external hard drive?

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Hello everyone
This situation, Macbook stopped seeing the hard drive, it is not displayed at all in the disk utility. On another Windows computer, it is detected and works without problems. Other disks on the poppy also work, are detected, and so on. The format didn't help. There is a nuance, if you run Windows virtually through Parallels, then the hard drive will be determined there and then you can switch it to macos and it will also become visible. Same thing on the other mac. So the problem is in the hard drive itself and its initialization in macos. Disk MyPassport 1 tb. Maybe there are some utilities to correct errors in the disk controller, or firmware? There is no software for it on the official site. Has anyone experienced this and found a solution?

Answer 1

Format it in exFAT format (Well, or HFS +), but not in NTFS.
MyPassport comes with Windows file system (NTFS) out of the box.
NTFS - Full Windows support; The Mac will be able to read but not be able to write data; there are initialization errors.
ExFAT - Full support for Mac and Windows, but macOS will not be able to use the drive for backups;
HFS+ - Full Mac support, but Windows won't see this drive.
Launch Parallels, format the disk from there under exFAT, check.
But I would do it either on a real PC under Windows, or through software for a poppy.
The problem is definitely not in the hardware, but you were able to open it from under the virtual Windows that is on the poppy, which means it works fine.