I’ve an exterior drive that I have never accessed not too long ago (a yr? Perhaps longer? Actually within the final three years). This can be a primary Western Digital 3.0TB drive (HDD/platters) that I put right into a Wavlink USB 3.0 HDD docking station. The unit spins and appears high-quality (no clicking or different sounds, just like the arm is having hassle accessing the blocks). I am getting a message from macOS that this drive can’t be learn.
it from Disk Utility I see the title of the drive, its measurement, and that it’s a CoreStorage logical quantity • Mac OS prolonged (encrypted). I’ve accessed it previously from my MacBook, however I believed possibly since I upgraded to Sequoia, the newer OS does not learn the outdated format.
I’ve an older iMac working macOS Ventura 13.7.1 and I believed I might haven’t any downside studying it if the issue is Sequoia. The iMac acknowledged that it’s an encrypted quantity and accepted the password to decrypt it. However once more I get the message that the drive is unreadable and will not mount.
Has this unit been broken attributable to lack of use? Or has the outdated formatting scheme for plastered drives grow to be out of date with macOS? I used to get well drives many years in the past, however my expertise are outdated and I do not even know what restoration software program is used today (anybody keep in mind when Norton labored on a Mac?)