Hard drive icon in finder of non existing hard drive

Hello, yesterday I had a bit of an issue with a harddrive. I think it got corrupted. Back-up the files and formatted the drive, The drive works fine now. But in my macbookpro the drive still exist in de finder. I can not eject the drive, restarting finder also does not help. How can I get ride of this old connection, which is not longer there but still keeps showing?


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MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.13

Posted on Jan 1, 2020 4:17 AM

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Posted on Jan 1, 2020 6:33 AM

In Finder's Menu, select Go menu>Go to Folder, and go to "/volumes". (no quotes)


Volumes is where an alias to your hard drive ("/" at boot) is placed at startup, and where all the "mount points" for auxiliary drives are created for you to access them. This folder is normally hidden from view.


Drives with an extra 1 on the end have a side-effect of mounting a drive with the same name as the system already think exists. Try trashing the duplicates with a 1 or 2 if there are no real files in them, and reboot.


If it does contain data...


http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2474

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Jan 1, 2020 6:33 AM in response to Digilux2_Amsterdam

In Finder's Menu, select Go menu>Go to Folder, and go to "/volumes". (no quotes)


Volumes is where an alias to your hard drive ("/" at boot) is placed at startup, and where all the "mount points" for auxiliary drives are created for you to access them. This folder is normally hidden from view.


Drives with an extra 1 on the end have a side-effect of mounting a drive with the same name as the system already think exists. Try trashing the duplicates with a 1 or 2 if there are no real files in them, and reboot.


If it does contain data...


http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2474

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