Thanks, I knew there had to be a catch. I ended up installing something called 'Mac fuse' I think. And a 3rd party ntfs3d driver for it. The driver was a little out of date also and outside of Mac developers network.
This may not be a hardware failure. I have several Western Digital Drives. All have reported drive failure within the last month.
They include My Book Duo (12 TB) - 2 of them, My Passport (4 TB) - 2 of them, My Passport Ultra (3 TB), and My Passport Ultra (2 TB). The 2TB Passport Ultra was configured as a Time Machine drive attached to Airport Extreme. The 4TB Passports were configured via Disk Utility as a Raid 1 pair and connected through a Duo. Both 12TB Duos were configured as Raid 1 drives, directly connected to iMac (A1297). One of the Duos is only 2 weeks old.
The other is currently going to WD for exchange. In all raid cases, WD Utilities reported the pair as degraded with one of the platters dead (empty slot in the Duo). Time Machine simply stopped making the 3TB available for use. It makes me wonder if there is a software compatibility issue here, not a hardware problem.
I can erase and rebuild each drive when connected to the iMac. It’s always WD Utilities that reports a raid configuration problem.
Summary Query: Help, I’m in deep trouble. I lost my precious data from my Western Digital 2 TB external hard drive due to accidental formatting.
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These sectors are allocated to files, and the data structure information is stored as metadata. When you delete a file its metadata information is updated. Also, when the drive is formatted fresh data structure (file system) is created. In both the situation, data stored in the sectors remain unharmed. This gives a chance of data recovery. Mounting an External Hard Drive WD External hard drive mounts on you macOS High Sierra when it is connected to Mac. Mounting makes the drive available for use and is visible in Finder and Disk Utility.
In case the drive is corrupt, the data structure information is damaged or lost, which makes hard drive unmountable on macOS. The only way to create a new data structure is to format the unmountable external hard drive with APFS file system.
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