HELP! - I cannot mount my external hard drive

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HELP! - I cannot mount my external hard drive

Forum: General Discussion

Creator: Daniel Robertson

Created: 2019-07-21

Updated: 2019-07-21

Daniel Robertson - 2019-07-21

Hello,

I have an encrypted external hard drive that contains recent sentimental family photos etc. I have never had any issues with it but today it could not be mounted.

The usual message “This process may take a long time and VeraCrypt may seem unresponsive” appeared for much longer than usual. Then I briefly saw my external hard drive appear in the Mac Finder window for about two seconds, then the following message appears - “hdiutil: attach failed - no mountable file systems”

I have tried to repair the external hard drive using first aid in the disk utility and got the following message - First Aid found corruption that needs to be repaired. To repair the startup volume, run First Aid from Recovery. Click Done to continue.

I tried to repair the external hard drive using First Aid from Recovery and this didn’t work either.

Please help. The information and images contained on this external hard drive are very important to me.

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