macbook promacosusb
When I put in a USB drive, VMWare asked me if I want to connect it to Mac or Windows, and the USB drive shows up in Disk Utility, so I can confirm that the USB is not broken and USB port is also working.
But I can never find the USB drive in Finder.
In Preferences, I checked everything so external drive can be shown in Finder.
What's wrong with this?
(I use MacBook pro 15" Late 2011, OS X Mavericks)
If your USB hard drive is the bus-powered variety (that is, you don't plug it into the wall for power), then it is possible that it is requiring too much startup current to run on one of your computers.
Some computers are pickier than others about how much current a device can draw, and over what period.
You might try a cable like this:
Basically, you can use power from two USB ports, instead of just one.
If your hard drive has a jack for a power adapter, use that instead.
Best Answer
You could try finding the drive using Terminal. If you're not hip to Terminal commands, the way to access your USB via the command-line is
Open up Terminal, and enter the following commands (hit return at the end to execute):
This will take you to the highest level folder on your computer's hard drive. Then, type:
This will list everything there. You should see an entry there called
Volumes. Now go into the directory and list its contents:The USB's name should be listed, since you said DiskUtility sees it.
From there, you can browse the stuff in your USB, and use
open [filename]to open things.Otherwise, you might want to copy everything off of the drive and reformat it. That fixes most problems.