How to fix external hard drive disk mount error?

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How to fix external hard drive disk mount error?

Hello. After installing Catalina from the Sierra operating system onto my desktop iMac, noticing issues with all Lacie Porsche External Hard drives - Format: Mac os Extended (Journaled), they do mount and when opened everything works fine. However, in Disk Utility when checking First Aid, I am getting the error: First Aid failing - Unable to unmount volume for repair: (-69673). They do eject okay and have no corruption after checking them on my MacBook Air with the High Sierra operating system. So, it's obvious Catalina is the problem. Gotta be a better remedy besides returning to Sierra! Help most appreciative...

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Eudora Liu

Answered on Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Unable to unmount volume for repair: (69673) occurs due to a volume that could not be unmounted. Before proceeding to fix the drive, you should back up or recover your data.

You can use iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac to get help, which is a powerful tool that can help you recover kinds of files from USB flash drives, SD cards, HDDs, and SSDs.

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After you get back your data, you can take the following ways to fix Unable to unmount volume for repair: (69673). Make sure you have closed all the programs running on Mac.

Relaunch Finder
Manually unmount the external hard drive
Unmount the external hard drive with Terminal
Force unmount the external hard drive
Uninstall the external hard drive manufacturer's software
Repair the external hard drive in macOS Recovery Mode
Reformat the external hard drive in Terminal

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