External drive not recognized.

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Hey everybody I have a problem with my High Sierra hackintosh not recognizing an install drive that came with "Native Instruments Komplete 12 Ultimate". Essentially it's an external HDD that has the installer for the program on it. I checked on my macbook air and the drive pops up immediately on the legit apple computer but is not recognized on my hackintosh.

I decided to try using multibeast to make sure the all of the USB stuff was installed. I still can't get the drive to be recognized. It recognizes my USB flash drive and other external HDDs but not this install drive. Has anybody else run into this issue? Anybody have any idea why this is happening?

 

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Hey everybody I have a problem with my High Sierra hackintosh not recognizing an install drive that came with "Native Instruments Komplete 12 Ultimate". Essentially it's an external HDD that has the installer for the program on it. I checked on my macbook air and the drive pops up immediately on the legit apple computer but is not recognized on my hackintosh.

I decided to try using multibeast to make sure the all of the USB stuff was installed. I still can't get the drive to be recognized. It recognizes my USB flash drive and other external HDDs but not this install drive. Has anybody else run into this issue? Anybody have any idea why this is happening?

Hi there.

Two things:

1) I notice from your config.plist that you don't have the USB port-limit removal patch in place. In that case have you created a bespoke SSDT for your USB ports? If not you will probably need the patch etc.

2) Change your CSR setting (in the RtVariables section from 0x3 to a less strict option. I'll let you research which is best etc. There's plenty of info here). It could be that your external drive is formatted in a way other than HFS+. Maybe ExFAT etc. Sometimes a security restrictions stop kexts loading that allow reading of some data. A bit like Safe Mode when you can't see any non-standard format disks.

Just a couple of thoughts. This might be completely wrong for your build but maybe worth exploring.