How To Recover An External SSD That Won't Mount - Mac OS
Today I have some good news. I'll show you step by step how I recovered data on my external 1TB SSD. It had years of video and I now have full access to the drive.
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0:00 Introduction: How to Recover an External SSD
0:29 Trying Disk Utility and First Aid
0:46 Using the Terminal Utility 'diskutil'
1:35 How to List Disks to Find the Unmounted Drive
2:05 Trying to Mount the Disk in Terminal (and failure)
2:28 Identifying the Real Problem: The Fsck Process
3:31 How to Search for and Kill the Fsck Process
4:13 Killing the Fsck Process using pkill
4:35 Final Attempt: Mounting the Disk Read-Only
5:03 Success and Data Recovery Relief
5:14 A Quick Note on Backups and Formatting
6:08 Choosing the Better Apple File System (APFS)
6:30 Conclusion and Wrap-up
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