I’ve an exterior drive I have never accessed lately (a 12 months in the past? Maybe longer? Definitely throughout the final three years). This can be a naked 3.0 TB Western Digital drive (HDD/platters) I put right into a Wavlink USB 3.0 HDD Docking station. The drive spins up and appears OK (no clicking or different sounds just like the arm is having bother accessing blocks). I get a message from macOS that this drive is unreadable.
it from inside Disk Utility I see the identify of the drive, its dimension and that it’s a CoreStorage Logical Quantity • Mac OS Prolonged (Encrypted). I’ve accessed it previously from my MacBook however thought maybe since I’ve upgraded it to Sequoia that the newer OS does not learn the older formatting.
I’ve an older iMac working macOS Ventura 13.7.1 which I believed would don’t have any drawback studying it if the problem is Sequoia. The iMac did acknowledge it’s an encrypted quantity and accepted the password to decrypt the amount. However once more I get the message the drive is unreadable and will not mount.
Has this drive turn out to be corrupted on account of non-use? Or has the older formatting scheme of plastered drives turn out to be out of date with the macOS? I used to do drive restoration many years in the past however my expertise are outdated and I do not even know what restoration software program is at present used (anybody bear in mind when Norton labored on a Mac?)
