How to Solve External Hard Drive Not Mounting after Ventura Update — Jan 2024

Jenny, Ask to me- Hello, I really need your help. I moved a lot of things to my HDD and upgraded my Mac from Monterey to macOS Ventura 13.2. But now that the update is done, neither Finder nor Disk Utility can find the HDD. What should I do? How can I get my HDD files back?

There are a lot of good ways to fix the issue where your hard drive not mounting after Ventura update.

You should make sure that your HDD is plugged correctly:

Take the drive out of the computer and plug it back in. You can try a different adapter, USB port, or cord.

Start up your Mac in Safe Mode:

• Turn off your Mac and press the power button to start it up.

• Hold down the Shift key and wait for the Apple logo to show up.
• Let go of the Shift key and sign in when the window appears.
  
  Get your Mac updated:
  
  “Settings” > “General” > “Software Update”
  
  Stop the fsck process:
• Type the following into the Terminal: Do this: sudo pkill -f fsck
  While your HDD is still connected, restart your Mac:
• Another way to fix this drive problem is to restart your Mac. You might get a message asking you to let the drive link to your Mac if you are using Silicon Mac. Just agree with it.
  
  BLR Data Recovery Tool can help you get back your data that won’t mount.

This hard drive data recovery software for Mac can get back the things you can’t get to after the Ventura update.

Here are the steps you can follow to recover your lost file from HDD:

Step 1: Bring up the BLR data recovery tool and pick out your hard drive. Now you can pick hard drive repair.

Step 2: If you can’t remember where your data is saved on the hard drive, you can also sort your files by file type.

Step 3: Double-click the file to see a sample of the file you want to get back, then click “Recover” to get it. You should pick a new place to save restored files so that data doesn’t get overwritten during recovery.