Timeline for WD My Passport not showing up
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| Sep 11, 2021 at 16:04 | comment | added | Tetsujin | As no-one else has picked up on this… I'd try DiskWarrior &/or Paragon Hard Disk Manager to see if either can rescue the existing drive. Alternatively Disk Drill to attempt to recover the other data to a new drive… which you need anyway, because it is very unwise to keep Time Machine with other non-backed-up data on the same drive. | |
| Sep 8, 2021 at 23:22 | comment | added | GIS_newbie | so the drive had 300GB which was a previous back up from an old macbook, and also 700GB of new data stored. I managed to load it in Disk Utility and tried first aid, but nothing materialised. I tried ejecting and un-mounting and re mounting via terminal but nothing. Disk Drill picked up the HD but had problems scanning it. So it is connecting, just not opening. | |
| Sep 8, 2021 at 21:21 | comment | added | Solar Mike | So this is the only copy? What about the original if this drive is the backup? | |
| Sep 8, 2021 at 13:49 | answer | added | Keijo Treima | timeline score: -1 | |
| Sep 8, 2021 at 12:05 | comment | added | Tetsujin | tbh, I'm not sure how you get out of this one. Big Sur doesn't use Hard Links, yet that's what prior Time Machine drives depended on. Deleting TM from Trash also required disabling SIP. I really don't have enough experience with Big Sur to know how to handle this… but there are several very smart cookies on this site, so I sincerely hope one of them can help you. Good Luck. | |
| Sep 8, 2021 at 11:59 | comment | added | GIS_newbie | macOSBig Sur, and yes it was a time machine backup. It was one from an old mac and I couldn't remove files I didn't need. I managed to put in the trash, violating the golden rule (that I didn't know about). | |
| Sep 8, 2021 at 11:48 | comment | added | Tetsujin | What macOS are you on? Was this a Time Machine backup? Golden Rule: Don't throw Time Machine backups in the Trash… :\ | |
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| S Sep 8, 2021 at 11:41 | history | asked | GIS_newbie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |