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Original post by: Tom avati

Title:

Disk utility won't format usb SSD

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I have an internal ssd Crucial  that I used in my iMac and that for some time I used as an external disk connected with a Usb 3 Sabrent adapter. The disc has always worked both inside and out but when I tried to connect it to an iPad Air 3 through the Lightning usb-3 adapter, the disc, after appearing for a moment on iPad files, has disappeared. Since then I can no longer mount it on the Finder of any Mac. Disk utility can still see it but if I try to format it the process crashes while creating the partition map, it seems impossible to activate it. I tried also with Disk Warrior being able to recover some data, but the disk cannot be formatted anyway ("TM" cannot be activated. Com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error 49153).  do you have any ideas?

Device:

Solid State Drive

Status:

open