IMac does not see my external hard drive after recent update

Is there a reason why my external hard drive is not being 'seen' by my iMac after the most recent update to the system?

managed to solve it myself after reading some other information on other forums.
Powered hard drive and iMac down, plugged hard drive in, turned on iMac, connected hard drive.  Bingo.

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