WD Passport 'unreadable' by MacBook - need to recover all my photos. LizN May 30, 2013, 1:50 PM I am in DESPERATE need of help with my Mac specific WD Passport hard drive.

Today, as I intended to perform my regular Time Machine backup, I got welcomed by a very scary message when I connected my external hard disk to my MacBook. The disk you inserted you inserted was not readable by this computer. Now, I take pride in having never ever lost any data on my Macs since 1998, so I was concerned this might be the end of my record In Disk Utility the drive device was listed, but no volume could be mounted due to a corrupted partition map. Don’t ask me how it got corrupted in the first place. I see this thread has been going on for some years and it’s saved a lot of people. I’m hoping you can help me as yesterday I was happily working on an edit and today when I turned the computer on I got the dreaded window that everyone in this thread knows.

So I followed the instructions and I got this as a final message diskutil repairDisk Usage: diskutil repairDisk MountPoint DiskIdentifier DeviceNode Repair the required layout and components of the partition map of a whole disk. Ownership of the affected disk is required. Any help would be hugely appreciated! Thanks • Dec 19, 2016 @ 13:03:43. Just wanted to give a shoutout to the author for providing a great fix here. I had spent hours trying to recover an encrypted USB drive normally used on a mac which was rendered unusable when a windows machine accidentally rewrote its partition table.

After many hours of research and trial and error, running diskutil eject /dev/disk1 followed by diskutil repairDisk /dev/disk1 repaired the partition table and brought the USB drive back to life immediately. Thanks again! • Tim Berho Dec 29, 2016 @ 22:12:16. Had the same problem and worked through your steps Steps went fine till ejectafter that however trying the last step which was the repairdisk, it display “Repairing the partition map might erase disk2s1, proceed?

(y/N)” Since there is data on the drive i couldnt afford to hit the N. What do you advise me to do? Getting add ins in excel for mac. This forum has been a life savior so far and i have reached the best stage possible so far so i guess just another step or two should complete the process Thanks in advance 🙂 • Leticia Feb 15, 2017 @ 15:46:42.

Hi Tried the original steps and the hard disk didn’t pick up Then tried repairDisk; however the result that displayed was as below: Last login: Fri Feb 17 09:41:23 on ttys000 Shaheens-MacBook-Pro:~ Shaheen$ diskutil repairDisk /dev/disk2 Repairing the partition map might erase disk2s1, proceed? Hi The problem i am facing is as below, based on your quieries: 1. The hard drive is not visible in Finder 2. Under the disk utility, On the left side, under External it displays WD Elements 25A2 Media Nothing below which i believe means that the hard drive is not mounted On the right side, it shows as if the disk is unformatted 3. On running the command “ls -l /Volumes” the following is displayed: Shaheens-MacBook-Pro:~ Shaheen$ ls -l /Volumes total 8 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1 Feb 17 09:18 Macintosh HD -> / d———+ 13 Shaheen admin 510 Feb 15 18:55 Paradise Shaheens-MacBook-Pro:~ Shaheen$ • Feb 17, 2017 @ 17:20:24. I just read some articles and believe this is something pretty disturbing let me brief u on the original situation when this issue came about The macOS extended journaled encrypted hard drive was taken by a colleague and connected to a security camera device to copy some.dav files which i believe would have been a device more windows based.the disk initially didn’t show but the next time he connected, he was able to export the files onto the drive. He mentioned that he had not pressed format or anything similar?