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drive crashes mac

  1. X

    "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer"

    Hello all, I have a 4TB drive that I have been using for about one year and half. It worked fine until this morning, when I unplugged it after selecting Force Eject and plugged it in again, it shows "The dish you inserted was not readable by this computer". Both my macbook and iMac indicated...
  2. tomzorz

    MBP won't boot - cannot mount root, errno = 19

    My mid-2009 mbp started to crash/freeze randomly a few times the last week. I ran a disk utility check when I still was able to boot and it said everything was fine. The next day it crashed again, and I haven't been able to boot it ever since – now two days ago. It boots and gives me the...
  3. Y

    Solved- External hard drive fails to mount/show, or crashes mac, or fails to mount 2nd drive/device

    Hi all, An explanation of these various problems, and a simple solution, is below. I had a lot of hassle with trying to solve these five problems: 1 - Trying to mount an external hard drive, crashes the mac. 2 - The external hard drive fails to mount, (but doesn't crash the mac). 3 - Trying...