External Harddrive Not Showing In Finder Or Disk Utility

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Andrew Telford

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I have a 1TB WD external hard drive that I previously had on a router. I am trying to get access to the drive as it would be good not to throw it out.

I have it plugged in and when I look at Finder and Disk Utility it isn't there.

When I open up Terminal and go to /Volumes, I can see it there

Code: 
Andrews-MacBook-Pro:Volumes xxxx$ ls -la
total 88
drwxrwxrwt@  9 root    admin    306  1 Aug 14:44 .
drwxr-xr-x  35 root    wheel   1258  1 Aug 08:34 ..
-rw-r--r--@  1 xxxx  admin   6148  6 Feb 12:56 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x   1 xxxx  staff   8192 15 May 20:58 BOOTCAMP
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root    admin      1  1 Aug 08:30 Macintosh HD -> /
drwx------   1 xxxx  staff  16384 30 Jul 22:20 Public
drwx------   0 xxxx  staff      0  1 Jan  1970 Sdrive
drwxr-xr-x+  3 xxxx  admin    102  6 Feb 15:41 Storage
drwx------   1 xxxx  staff  16384  6 Jul 10:35 yyyyyy

When I attempt to eraseDisk I am told it can't find the disk.

I am ok to wipe the disk clean or just get access to it so i can check the files on it and then erase it. Happy either way.

I have also tried to mount it
Code: 
Andrews-MacBook-Pro:Volumes xxxx$ sudo mount Storage
mount: Storage: unknown special file or file system.

Assistance would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Sometimes it takes a couple of tries to get a dying drive to mount. Have you tried connecting it to the router again?
 
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