External Hard Drive Cable Usb-c

[Nakita Heitmann]

Itsounds like you have a MacBook with USB-C ports and an external hard drive that uses a micro B cable for connectivity. To connect your external hard drive to your MacBook, you'll need an adapter or cable that can convert the micro B connection to a USB-C connection.

Regarding the warning not to use a USB hub, it's generally recommended to use high-quality USB-C hubs that support data transfer at high speeds (USB 3.1 Gen 2 or later) to avoid potential issues. Cheaper or low-quality hubs may not provide the necessary power or bandwidth for external hard drives to function properly.

If you have a NTFS drive with data on it (e.g., from a Windows PC), and wanted to convert it to Mac format, you'd need a second drive. You'd format the second drive using a Mac filesystem and then do a backup from the NTFS one. (As far as I know, there's no way to convert NTFS to APFS or HFS+ "in place".)

If you still cannot connect, then please provide us with the specifics of the problem such as what brand of external disk is being used? Is it of a sufficient storage capacity? How is it connected? How is it formatted? How is your HD formatted? What specific messages did you receive?

Here's a photo of one such drive and cable. Here you see the black USB 3.0 Micro B to USB-A cable plugged into a white Apple USB-C to USB-A adapter. If you look on Amazon, you can find cables which go directly from USB-C to USB 3.0 Micro B (and are cheaper than the Apple adapter). (Avoid ones whose descriptions don't mention USB 3.0 or 3.1 data transfer - there might be a few "charging only" cables out there, for use with other portable devices that have USB 3.0 Micro B sockets.)

You can use an adapter, though not sure why anyone would recommend not using a Hub, unless you are dealing with a CD or DVD drive and not a hard drive. How are you determining it won't backup if you can't even connect it to the Mac? Seems like a crucial piece of information regarding what you are actually doing, is missing.

I am going to guess that the reason for this is because the two Macs are formatted differently. It is important that the external drive be properly formatted for the Mac is is to be used with. Second - I would definitely NOT use one drive to backup two different Macs. External backup drives should be dedicated only to backups and be used by only one Mac.

exFAT is not as advanced as Microsoft's NTFS, or Apple's APFS and HFS+, in some ways. But both macOS and Windows will read and write exFAT volumes without the installation of third-party filesystem drivers.

But connecting my hard drive with the USB type A connector with the Thunderbolt USB type C port of my computer using the same cable doesn't work. The hard drive doesn't power up and is not found by my computer.

As it turned out, when I use a regular USB cable with an USB type A to C adapter, the USB type A drive connection works. But the two other cables that came with the hard drive and with a charger don't.

You have HD1 with Type-C port, and, when connecting it to Host PC with Type-A port using Type-A to Type-C cable (called "legacy cable assembly"), it works. Explanation of why: the Type-C end of legacy cable assembly has embedded resistors on CC line, normally 56k pull-up to +5V VBUS. This connection defines the Type-C end as USB host, so USB Type-C device accepts it as host, and works fine.

You have HD2 with Type-A receptacle, which is technically illegal USB arrangement. But there were some industry hacks who used this connection, and usually supplemented their HD product with proprietary cable with Type-A plugs on both ends. Now, if you try the same cable as in #1 case, the cable C-end still has the "host signature". When you plug this cable into Type-C compatible port on another host computer, the cable says "it is host", and the host says "it is host". So plugging two hosts together results in inactive connection, and PC host won't assert VBUS. So the HS2 will have no VBUS and won't start nor connect.

this adapter has CC pull-down (5.1k), which signifies it as "USB device". As such, the adapter instructs the Type-C port to be HOST, and the port will output VBUS. Thus the adapter turns your Type-C port into a regular Type-A old USB port, with VBUS turned ON. If then you use your proprietary A-A cable, the HD2 also works.

Try on another Mac or PC: If you have another Mac or PC available, try connecting the WD Elements drive to it to see if it will mount. This can help determine if the issue is with the drive itself or with your Mac.

If none of these steps resolve the issue, there may be a hardware problem with the WD Elements drive. In this case, you may need to contact the manufacturer or a professional data recovery service for further assistance.

I have the same problem with 4TB new WD Elements disk not mounting and I am in a critical situation. My Mac is a 2022 M2 MBP so that should not be a problem. Ironically, the purchase (2 days ago) was a result of a critical situation which is now worse. I have tried all the suggested remedies and nothing works.

Please allow me to inform you that there can be multiple reason in which your drive can be in accessible please try to connect your drive with another USB cable and in different USB port and if possible please try to connect the drive in different computer.

Please allow me to inform you that there could be many causes of the drive not recognizing on your computer. I would request you to refer to the article mentioned below to know about the causes and potential resolutions:

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Step 6: Return to Disk Utility and verify that the external device is successfully mounted and visible in the left-hand device list. Open Finder and verify if the mounted device name (e.g., Mount) appears in the sidebar.

In this case, data recovery software may be helpful but does not guarantee 100% recovery. If the data on the hard drive is crucial for you, I would recommend investing in professional data recovery services.

USB is a serial input/output technology for connecting peripheral devices to a computer. USB-C is the latest implementation of this standard and it provides higher bandwidth and new power management features.

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Hi, I have similar issues with 2 of my hard drives, WD passport and elements on my M1 MBA.. These 2 drives work fine with my older MacBook Pro late 2013 on Mojave and my Windows setup but cannot seem to work well on Big Sur..

Once I updated to Catalina it started showing up every few days when the computer was asleep. I might see 1 or 2 messages when I logged on in the AM.I updated to Big Sur hoping this bug was resolved and now I see 10-20 of these messages upon awakening the computer. If I eject the drive before putting the computer to sleep it will still result in 10-20 messages.

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