USB Flash Drives are also a great option for saving information and share it with others. When you have many things to save and share but you have a limited number of USB Flash Drives, you will need to backup the information and restore it when needed. This is where the Microsoft USB Flash Drive Manager application can help you. However, for those who’ve been used to live “in the cloud” (aka, using cloud storage or services for all kind of files), you probably won’t need a physical disk drive at all. Buying a Flash Drive for Mac: What to Consider in 2020? When you’re storing files, space is everything.
- Users can right-click the flash drive and select the duplicate option to backup data on Mac easily. 7 Recovering Files from Flash Drive on Mac By using the Recoverit for Mac, the process is also very easy as below.
- If your Mac won’t recognize the USB flash drive, I suggest you to unmount the disk: Click on Unmount button unplug the flash drive wait about 1015 seconds plug flash drive back in. Next, try to access the flash drive again.
- The flash drive was removed improperly from the computer which led to the corruption of its partitions. Faulty USB port or cable. If the USB port or cable of the computer is not working properly, your Mac computer won't recognize or read the flash drive. Incompatibility issues between the file systems of both flash drive and the Mac computer.
Starting up from the DiskWarrior USB Flash Drive
1) Insert the DiskWarrior Recovery flash drive directly into a USB port on your Mac.
Do not use a USB port on a hub, external monitor or keyboard. Note: Some USB-C adapters are not suited for startup from data storage devices.
2) Turn on or restart your Mac and immediately press and hold down the Option (alt) key.
After a few seconds, the Startup Manager should appear as shown below. If you see the Apple logo, it’s possible that you didn’t hold Option early enough. Restart and try again.
A green DiskWarrior Recovery disk icon indicates that the DiskWarrior flash drive contains the DiskWarrior Recovery as it shipped from Alsoft. This disk can boot any 64-Bit Intel Mac that currently starts up in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
If you have a newer Mac that currently starts up in OS X 10.7 (Lion) or later, you will need to update the DiskWarrior flash drive with the included DiskWarrior Recovery Maker. A DiskWarrior Recovery flash drive updated with DiskWarrior Recovery Maker will have a blue disk icon as shown below. Alternatively, you can start up from your Mac's built-in macOS Recovery.
3) Use the left and right arrow keys on the keyboard to select the DiskWarrior Recovery disk and then press the Return key.
If the icon of the DiskWarrior Recovery disk is green then DiskWarrior will launch automatically after the Mac is started up. If the icon of the DiskWarrior Recovery disk is blue then you will be presented with a window from which you will double-click DiskWarrior to launch it.
4) Once DiskWarrior opens you must agree to the software license and then you will see the window below.
Open the DiskWarrior manual from the Help menu for further instructions on repairing and recovering.
Flash Disk For Macbook Pro
5) If the disk you want to repair is encrypted with FileVault 2, you'll need to unlock the disk.
When a disk is encrypted, the Mount/Unmount tool changes to an Unlock tool. Select the encrypted disk in the pop-up menu and click the Unlock tool. You'll be prompted to enter the password to unlock the disk. You'll need to update the original DiskWarrior Flash drive with DiskWarrior Recovery Maker to add support for FileVault 2.
Install Mac Os Flash Drive
Note: The “Startup Disk” of macOS Catalina (10.15), macOS Mojave (10.14), and macOS 10.13 High Sierra with SSDs (Solid State Drives) cannot be rebuilt with DiskWarrior as they are automatically pre-loaded with Apple File System (APFS).