HT201514 Cannot mount G-Tech drive, cannot configure Time MAachine

Not a quetstion, but advice
Suddenly, my G-Tech drive was unmounted and I could not even see it to remount.
Worse, my Time Machine was no longer configured.
After searching umpteen blogs, and found no answer, I had a "Gestalt".
I looked at my threat prevention  app. and found that the "Options" had blocked all attachable drives. It must have been "automagically" re-configured with the latest "Upset" (Update).
I unchecked the firewire and USB drives, and presto, it all worked again.
Hope that this helps

Hi Ncat,
I might have had similar problems with yours. Finder stuck at 'Not Responding' while I boot my Macbook Pro with external HDD plugged in, my macbook heats up considerably maybe because it keeps trying to access the external disk. And Finder can only proceed after I unplugged my external hard disk.
So what I did was:
I rebooted my macbook into recovery mode (by holding cmd+R before / during the booting chime
I used the Disk Utility from there (instead of from normal booting)
Then I proceed to with 'Repair Permissions' and 'Repair Disk' for each and every partition of the external harddisk, and also my internal hard disk.
Rebooted after everything's done, and now it seems to work.
I hope that it will work for you

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