I’ve been using the Mac for 3 years already, yet this tip escaped me till now. I’m sure that most Mac users have had to plug in an external hard drive at one time or another. I use an external hard drive once in awhile, mostly to back up data. There were times that I’d eject the disk only to remember that I needed another file from that disk. So I’d use the “unplug, plug-in” method. It’s self explanatory, or do I need to explain it further? This was definitely a chore.
It happened to me this afternoon and so I wondered, would it be possible to mount your hard drive again without unplugging it and plugging it back in? It was a good thing that Carlo H., a friend of mine and fellow Mac user was online. So I asked him that very question. Good thing he knew the answer.
To re-mount your hard drive/disk follow these simple steps.
1. Open Disk Utility.
2. On the left side panel you’ll see a list of disks that are plugged in. It’s usually your boot-up drive and the external disk you have plugged in. The volumes will vary depending on how many volumes you have.
3. Select the volume that you want to mount again.
4. Click on the mount button on the top right of Disk Utility.
There you go. No more of that “unplug, plug-in” nonsense. Now why I didn’t bother looking for that solution years ago? Beats me.
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