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OS corruption making the WD external drive unrecognized.

Owing to wear and tear of the Western Digital hard drive due to continuous overuse.

Due to abrupt system termination when the drive still connected.

If WD suffered physical damage from mishandling or dropping of the Western Digital drive.

After a sudden power surge while the drive is being used for file transfer process.

On Mac, knowing why a Western Digital drive is not being detected plays a significant role in identifying and resolving the issue. Why Western Digital External Drive Not Recognized Error shows on macOS: So after a backup, I now shut down the pc then unplug the drive from it.Summary: “The external hard drive was not recognized by Mac” error can be resolved by using the help of special tips mentioned in this blog.Īlso, Stellar Data Recovery Free Edition for Mac Software can be used as a data rescue tool to retrieve the files stored on the external drive. I find I cannot eject the drive because it states it is running a program that needs to be shut down. or the cloud feature but I do get a page come up on a pc reboot stating "no disc attached for cloud "which I would expect because I down load from the pc only and I dont need that feature. By that I mean would the data be over written or would a new sector be created therefor loosing the 30 gb of space it uses. If I had managed to redo the setup would that have effected my backed up data that is already on the WD drive. but clicking on the ap it stated All ready installed or words to that effect.

Unfortunately I am running windows 10 which I hate with a passion on a fast relatively new PC. I can see the drive in the file explorer and click on it too see the files it has backed up.

When clicking on Utilities there is a message select drive at the top of the page, but it does not display any drives. Hi thank you for your response to my confusion Clifford.