If you use both Mac & Windoze, there's a program called MacDrive that
allows Windoze computers to read drives formatted for Mac.
I bought it when I was in school because I use Windoze at home. The
School had Mac computers and we carried our work back & forth on an
external drive. I found it easier to format the external for Mac and
use MacDrive to read/write to the drive at home.
http://www.mediafour.com/software/macdrive/
Don't know if it would help in this situation, but it's a good program
if you need to be able to use the drive on both systems.
On 2/21/2018 02:07, Paul Sorenson wrote:
Do you know what file system your New and Photo drives are using? If
they're formatted either FAT or exFAT they should be compatible with
both MAC and Windows machines. Then you could plug the Photo drive
into a Windows machine and see if it's readable.
https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/file-system-formats-available-in-disk-utility-dsku19ed921c/mac
-p On 2/20/2018 9:06 PM, Rick Womer wrote:
Cotty,
Sorry this isn't clear. There are 3 external drives in our little
drama: Backup (Time Machine), New, and Photo.
The Mac Mini isn't showing the icons for =any= drives. (The System
Report knows they're there, though).
My venerable MacBook Pro recognizes all three, opens Backup and
New, but can't open Photo.
Rick
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 2:33 PM, Steve Cottrell
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 20/2/18, Rick Womer, discombobulated, unleashed:
Two external drives are now connected to my MBP, and are
working normally. The photo drive shows up on my MBP, but won't
open, and Disk Utility tells me (in red) that it can't be
un-mounted in order to be repaired.
In the above para, you mention that the two ext droves are
connected to you MBP, and 'are working normally'.
Yet the photo drive won't open. You don't mention the status of
your other drive (presumable the drive you use for Time
Machine?).
Is this second drive working normally? Define 'normal' please
:-)
The thing that needs to be ascertained is if the failure is
hardware or software. Points towards a failure of some kind on
your photo drive, but can you confirm that your other drive
operates as intended when connected to your MBP please?
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