I plugged in an outdated WD My Passport exterior HD (WDBACX0010BBK-00) into my 2020 Macbook Air M1 on Sonoma 14.5, solely to search out that the disk doesn’t present up on finder. Disk utility reveals a WD Digital CD with minimal capability, with all of the Disk Utility choices greyed out as an uninitialised disk.
I attempted to mount through diskutil in terminal:
% diskutil mount /dev/disk4
Quantity on disk4 didn't mount
If it has a partitioning scheme, use "diskutil mountDisk"
For those who assume the amount is supported however broken, strive the "readOnly" possibility
Then to mount the total disk in readonly mode:
% diskutil mountDisk readonly /dev/disk4
Quantity(s) mounted efficiently
I left it to chew at that for some time, and in that point additionally acquired a pop up which learn The disk you connected was not readable by this pc
. Nonetheless nothing could possibly be seen in finder or within the Volumes listing through terminal. Nonetheless, operating diskutil listing once more, I can see there’s a new “slice”, which wasn’t there earlier than (disk4s0
) :
% diskutil listing
...
/dev/disk4 (exterior, bodily):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: CD_partition_scheme *36.1 MB disk4
1: CD_ROM_Mode_1 31.5 MB disk4s0
Now in an try to grasp and (hopefully) get better the information, following the suggestions right here in a blogpost by nbalkota in 2013, making an attempt the next:
% sudo gpt get better /dev/disk4
gpt get better: operation not permitted: get better
Why am I not permitted to make use of get better / how can I get this to run?