@@askkotso7241 Sounds like its a counterfeit SD card, they are very common now. I would stop that transfer, connect an external hard disk drive or SSD that you know to be good and try again, just to make sure that everything else is OK.
Restart the system. If you keep getting these errors that usually means you have some 3rd party software installed that is interfering with the operating system. They usually are installed into utility folder, try to find it and uninstall it, software like Tuxera NTFS or Mounty App
@@askkotso7241 Test it on a different system, it really has the symptoms of a counterfeit card, if you verify that its the system then boot up in Safe Mode and try again, if it then works then its a third party extension or an app that you added which is causing the problem.
It was working fine but after i unplugged my hard drive and tried to open it again my hard is empty. Please help me to fix it? I don’t want loose my wedding video 😢😢😢
You are the best! Everyone is talking about how to transfer to external hardrive but if the grey things is there..... nobody was talking about this issue . Thanks a lot!
OMG!!!!! I have searched far and wide for a solution to this exact problem on my Seagate External Backup Drive. Seagate itself did not have this from anywhere I could find it....this has been THE only video that gave me the information I needed. Thank you soooo very much-beyond words!!
You are precious, I've been trying to figure this out all day, from going on the terminal and typing in endless things to trying to give myself permission to write on the hard drive. I can't believe how simple this was! Thank you, you've earned yourself a subscriber
It worked! Thank you so much for this tutorial. I was getting really frustrated with this issue and I thought it would be a much bigger pain in the ass to fix than it actually was. This video was a life saver, very easy to follow, even for those of us who can be a little technologically challenged. Thank you again!
I tried reformatting on the mac but it said “erase failed” so i plugged it back into my Windows pc and it automatically asked to format it to ExFat. Few clicks, plugged it back into my mac and it works great. Am able to transfer! Thanks so much!
This was so incredibly helpful- I was reading articles and watching videos for close to two hours. After I watched this video it took me 15 minutes. Thank you so much!
As someone that knows just enough to be destructive this video keeps me grounded. I am a fairly new Mac user and this problem has haunted me. I have searched for solutions but finally i have found it, thank you. Great video, very intuitive and very simple. I appreciate what you do.
this works you might get an error that drive is unmountable you have to plug it back in windows computer. safely remove drive plug back in mac. in mounty do remount
the portion of the video that works great is "Format the drive to be ExFAT Format". Fixed the issue right away and I was able to put the photos and videos directly on the external drive. AWESOME!!!
I literally had a video meant to go up tomorrow and it wasn’t saving coz my disk was full and I was worried coz my hard drive wasn’t taking the file in but thank god ur video helped
Thank you, still relevant in late 2023. Reformatting drive to ExFAT worked simply and immediately. As he says, just make sure you are okay with losing anything already on the external drive.
Saved my life!! My MacBook disc was completely full and I could not delete anything. I had my external drive but I could never figure out how to transfer my files until now! Thanks a lot!
I am having that same issue. Not sure where to store them as my external hard drive has almost one TB used and I don’t have a lot of storage on my laptop to store them when formatting.
Hey, thank you for the tips! I've downloaded the mounty app, but when i tried to re-mounted my external disk, it said that my external disk isn't re-mountable. Do u know how to fix this? Thank you
@@GRIBSOFT I just did both but the drive still appears to be empty, showing no folders once I open it up. I had photos from the last 15 years on there!
Based on my experience, it sounds like the drive was already compromised. I'll put it this way, if you take a dying patient to the hospital and they don't survive, the doctors didn't kill them. You can try other software to try and recover files if they have been corrupt. Take a look at this video, and I promise this will be a big chance to get all your stuff back ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rb19xM4egzQ.html
hey thanks brother, you really saved me big time. i was about to crush my hard drive and or macbook because i do not know where the problem lies but this video saved me. thanks once again
You saved my life. Thanks a lot! I had to get some information because my LG smart TV wasn't reading my exFAT formatted flash drive. I had to make it NTFS but when I tried to transfer files from my hard drive to my flash drive in MAC, I got that gray circle with line in the middle. So frustrating! But your video saved me. Thanks a lot!
You just saved my day. Just subscribed. It took me a week to come across your site and solved the same problem I have with my newly bought WD drive. Thanks
Thank You! That was a simple fix. I knew about reformatting, but I didn't want to spend the time transferring the content back and forth. Lots of stuff on the drive. Mounty did the trick. I really appreciate the video.
Wow. Thank you so much for this video.. asked so many people on Reddit and nobody helped. Came across this vid and it was the exact issue I was facing! God bless
This is the best video I watched about this so far! I've been having so much trouble with this and the tutorials online make me even more confused. You're awesome. Thank you!
THANK YOU! You have saved my life, trying to put all of my photos on an external hard drive before I get my new laptop tomorrow. First I thought this was an issue with the hard drive, but you have saved me! Thank you!
Thanks a lot!! I have used quick fox for now. After having backup will certainly go ahead fir permanent fix.. Thanks again for detailed explanation and easy video representation.
Thank you so much. You've really help me a lot. I brought my laptop to the office seeking help on our IT but unfortunately, he is not familiar with MAC. So when I encountered your tutorial video.. I was very happy that even I can do it. Thanks a lot again.
Incredible!!! Trying to download Elder Scrolls onto my external hard drive to play on my new MacBook, and this worked and was so easy to do! So thank you! If anyone is wondering if it is *really* worth it to back up your files that you already have on the external hard drive, YES. I just backed up my favourites in order to get rid of all of my old stuff and this process did in fact erase everything off of the original drive. That might be obvious to some but it wasn't to me, so I am glad this guy said I should do the backup!!!
Incredible you really really helped me. I was afraid that this was one of those videos where there’s a catch but not at all. It is June 15th 2021 and this method still works thank you.
I am Windows user since 86 and I bought Macpro.I thougt plug in play. I was WRONG. That is why. When I was buying a Flash drive on the instruction said Os and Windows compatible. The video is helpful and educational. Thank you very much
Alex, this video was very helpful and it worked. I was having trouble saving onto my external hard drive - was ready to purchase another when I thought I'd do a little investigation first and found your video. 👍 🤗 Thank you!
If there are 2 seperate folders showing your disk drive, make sure to try both of them. I kept getting an error message on the first one. Thanks for the video!
Thanks so much for creating this video! Had an external hard drive that I had in college that I used on Windows to store photos and I am trying to store documents on it from a Mac now. I was so afraid I was no longer able to use the hard drive when I used barely 1GB out of a 500GB hard drive! Such a life saver!
Girl your a blessing as i have been trying for ages on how to transfer my folders of photos to the new external hard drive. As my new Imac pro seems to have no space anymore when I just bought few months ago. Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you very much or i say a million
Thank you very much! really helped i have been gettign very annoyed as every other troubleshoot i have found still doesn't work. Finally i can get my files again!
