I have an 8T MyBook which was working fine. I would leave it attached to my MacBook Pro when rebooting and the system would identify and mount it no issues. Then I found out about the sleep problem - and OK, I fixed that. But now, my Mac will only mount the drive if I attach it after the computer is already running - not from a clean boot.
My concern with this is I want to rebuild my Mac and am worried that it won’t find the HD in order to restore.
Steps I’ve taken (from this site):
Changed the Energy Saver to eliminate the sleep issue.
Deleted all WD software, including a file in the library and a password from system preferences.
I guess I’m ok having to plug it in fresh every time (even though it was working previously), but I’m really concerned the Mac won’t find it when I really need it during a restore.
I’m running Mojave and have not made any OS changes during this process - it just went from working to not…
Thanks in advance.