When I connected my SuperDrive to my Mac, I could hear the drive activate. However, I cannot find the drive in Finder or anywhere else. The drive shows up in Disk Utility and says uninitialized. So how can I access my drive?
Hi, it seems like your disk is a brand-new disk. It’s very normal when you plug in a new drive and Mac shows this message. The uninitialized state means this drive hasn’t been activated and used, not just according to your hearing.
To initialize it, you can check whether there are some guidelines or notices for you.
Oh, Gosh! I consider that you’d better recover and back up all the data first, because the USB drive showed uninitialized on Mac means you can’t access it.
But don’t worry, just do a data recovery on your SuperDrive then fix it.
It’s highly recommended to use iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac, which can recover data from uninitialized external hard disks, like USB flash drives.
- Open it after installing.
- Select your SuperDrive on the left menu then click Search for Lost Data.
- Filter and preview the find results after scanning.
- Tick your wanted items and click Recover to save them to another location.
- Do a backup and fix.
Hope you can find all the data to prevent serious loss.
Have you restarted your Mac, correctly connected the drive, or changed another drive to test?
Repairing it in Disk Utility works for me, you can try it.
Or do you consider formatting the drive if there isn’t anything essential?
Maybe reinstalling macOS seems to be the last resort.
Yes, it’s new. But I can’t find the guidelines.
Absolutely I tried, but it still shows that.
Okay, I will try, for this drive I have an installer to install. Hope this tool can help me.