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Corrupt Disk: The disk itself is corrupt, therefore preventing you from accessing any data within it.

If this isn’t the case, the disk won’t be recognized.

Incorrect formatting of the disk: The disk you are trying to connect has to be formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format or other Mac-supported formats.

Here are some reasons why this might happen: You can select the disk and click on the mount to make the drive accessible by the Operating system.Įven after connecting your disk to the system, it may not show up in the list of connected devices. The mounting means to make the disk available for the Operating system to perform read and write operations. You remove the drive, try another port, restart the system and insert it again. You connect it to your system only to find out that the drive is not getting mounted. This will make the hard drive visible in Finder sidebar.You have just copied important files from your friend on your external drive.

Step 3: To make the hard drive visible in Finder favorites, go to the Sidebar tab in Finder Preferences and check the Hard disks option listed under Devices. This will make your Hard drive visible on Desktop. Step 2: In General tab, check the Hard disks option. Alternatively you can press Command +, after launching Finder to open preferences directly.

Step 1: Open Finder from the top finder menu and select Preferences. In this guide, I will tell you how to show Mac HD in Finder window and on desktop.

However you won’t find it in your Mac easily, especially if you are a beginner. Well, in Mac we don’t have “My Computer” but we do have similar thing in Mac, called Macintosh HD, that is basically your Mac hard drive which will give you the access to all files and folder on your system. If you recently switched from Windows to Mac, you may be wondering where is “My Computer” in Mac, because as a windows users we are so used to it.