Filed under: Hardware, Peripherals, Software, Tips and tricks
Re-mount an ejected drive
This is a small tip, but for those who constantly work with external hard drives, this might be a bit of a time-saver.Typically, if you eject an external drive on Jaguar, Panther or Tiger and want to mount it again, you have to power cycle the drive, or unplug, then plug it back in. If your drive is in a tough-to-get-at spot or possibly across the room, these methods might get a bit obnoxious. Fortunately, I found a handy trip around this: if the drive has been ejected but is still powered on, simply start up Disk Utility to find the drive listed, but greyed out. Click on the drive, hit the Mount button in Disk Utility's toolbar, and stay in your seat for once to let your drive come running back into your desktop's arms.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
benkay said 8:03PM on 9-04-2005
Dope. I had no idea.
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D. said 10:52PM on 9-04-2005
Works well for external hard drives (just tried it), but doesn't seem to work for iPods. I couldn't get this trick to work with my 3g iPod after unmounting it.
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Mark said 11:17PM on 9-04-2005
Theres a way to do it with applescript... not so much clicking to do... just run the app
check out the forum listed below. i asked this question here a while back and got a lot of great answers.
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=42044
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iFelix said 3:43AM on 9-05-2005
I have been wondering about this, nice and easy solution (which is what I should expect from OS X, but I still get surprised).
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ubrgeek said 10:20AM on 9-05-2005
This is great! I had been cycling the power. As I'm a lazy bastisch, this is a much better solution. Thx!
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Mervin Jensen said 2:23PM on 9-05-2005
Thanks for this. It's perfect if you have a partitioned disk drive but only want to display a certain number of partitions.
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John Faughnan said 11:53PM on 9-06-2005
This works for most, but not all drives. I don't recall the vendor, but I had one drive that could never be remounted. I swapped for another in the same enclosure and it worked fine.
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