Connection problems with my Seagate?
Hello, I currently own the seagate 1Tb backup slim plus. Recently, I was was working on revit and I moved my laptop just a little bit and because of that my disk was ejected. I got the usual prompt saying my disk was not ejected properly and said ok. However as I plugged it back in, the drive is not being recognized by my laptop (Mac). The disk is also making frequent high pitched sounds that occur I would say every 7 seconds. I think the problem is a connection problem bridging from the drive to the computer. It is also not being recognized by other devices. Any help or thoughts is appreciated thank you!
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You should check the cable, look for kinks near the connector and also look for damaged contacts on the connector.
by DrGlowire
We are having a similar problem with a 2019 MBP 13 touchbar, OWC TB3 bus and 2 older USB2 drives, where randomly the drives disconnect, and we get a stack of error messages saying drive not ejected properly. Sometimes this happens with just the slightest movement of the bus, sometimes without any apparent movement of the peripheral(s). The result is a Finder freeze that requires a reset or just a prolonged wait.
There have been many instances of this behavior noted in Apple Support discussions, (search: "drive not ejected properly"), but no consistent fix, and no response from Apple, or fix provided by subsequent OS upgrades. This issue has been noted since MacOS 10.11 (High Sierra).
by Russell Hodin