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mick4545

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I have a Seagate 8tb external USB C.attached to my Mac mini, it is in a sealed enclosure and the Mac cannot provide enough power to it, I get the error message “hdd not ejected properly “ on waking from sleep.

I need to remove the hdd and place it in a powered enclosure, the Seagate has no visible screws, how do I get the hdd out, do have to get my hammer to it, or is there an easier way to?
 
I think it is a tamper proof case. I’ve seen the utube videos where the top comes off entirely, this enclosure, the top one third comes off leaving the HDD locked in the case.

It looks like hammer time.
 
Success…. HDD now installed in a ugreen enclosure and working well.

Can someone remind me how to upload photos from my iPhone
 
freddie64 said:
Use imgbox to host the pics and insert the BBcode it generates. (some hosting sites do not work in the UK or the images dissapear after a short time)

Never used a mac system, but should imagine it wont make a difference.
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Too difficult. I'll just explane what happened:

1. Disassembly of the enclosure was difficult, what I thought was a plastic case was in fact metal.
2. The HDD was held in a frame which was in turn was locked by 4 rubber feet extending from the bottom of the case into the frame.
3. I needn't have destroyed the enclosure, but it's no great loss.
4. The HDD inside was SkyHawk, which was a pleasant surprise as its used as my main backup, and source for copying to. my NAS.

The enclosure itself was very well put together. Pity my Mac mini couldn't power it.
 
I did remove that top third, it’s plastic and held in by clips as normal.

There’s a metal piece holding the SATA connector that has to be removed, it’s held in by 4 screws and 2 pieces of tape

The smooth part is alloy and is secured by rubber feet on the bottom of the case protruding into the case and securing a frame that holds the HDD.

Pulling the rubber feet out with pliers, frees the frame and HDD.

The HDD is is secured to the frame with 4 screws covered by rubber grommets as normal.

Hope this helps.
 
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OP here, the hdd is coming up with “hdd not ejected properly” again. Looking on Reddit some people think its a Mac OS issue, I tend to agree.

No data corruption so far.
 
I have a Ugreen NAS with 4 8tb disk in raid 5. The shucked hdd is just used for saving files before saving to the NAS, so not critical.
 
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