My external hard drive was working fine about a week ago. But one day, it said the drive was not properly removed after I removed it, and its icon disappeared. After that, it never worked again with the error prompt com.apple.diskmanagement.disenter error 49218 on my screen.
What is "com.apple.Diskmanagement.disenter error 49218"? The "com.apple.Diskmanagement.disenter error" occurs on your Mac when mounting an external hard drive on your Mac unsuccessfully, which means you can't access stored data on the external hard drive, including stored documents, photos, videos, and more.
In this case, the highest priority is to recover the data stored on the external hard drive where the error occurred. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac is one of the best data recovery software for Mac.
It can perform external hard drive recovery on a Mac with only three steps! Check out:
Step 1. Install and launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac, and choose the problematic external hard drive.
Step 2. Click "Search for lost files" when you select the external hard drive from the EaseUS software window.
Step 3. During scanning, you can filter the recoverable files and choose to recover them by clicking the "Recover All" button.
After recovering your stored data, you can fix the "com.apple.Diskmanagement.disenter error 49218" problem without worry! Here are two methods to fix the error 49218:
Method 1. Run "First Aid" to repair the external hard drive with mounting error 49218.
Follow the steps below:
Step 1. Open "Disk Utility" from the "Applications > Utilities" folder.
Step 2. Choose the external hard drive and click "First Aid" on the top menu.
Step 3. Click the "Run" button to start the repair process, and wait for it to complete.
Check if you can access the stored files on the external hard drive. If not, consider the second method.
Method 2. Reformat the external hard drive to fix the error 49218.
Note that formatting an external hard drive will erase all stored data on it, so you should use EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac to recover the external hard drive data first to avoid losing data. Follow the steps below:
Step 1. Open "Disk Utility" from the "Applications > Utilities" folder.
Step 2. Choose the external hard drive and click "Erase" on the top menu.
Step 3. Choose a new name and format for the erased external hard drive. Click "Erase" to continue.
Waiting for the formatting process to finish, your external hard drive can work normally.
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