My external 1tb My Passport won't display

The eternal displayed this morning, was ejected properly, now won't display other than in Disk Utility, however, it won't allow me to access or eject it.

Thanks Tom! Interestingly enough, everything was set properly. The 1tb icon showed up in my 5 year old MacBook Pro so ... took a 5mb external, plugged it in on new MacBook Pro - it displayed fine - left it plugged in, put the 1tb in and it displayed!  Some days ... thanks for the information as I hadn't actually done that.

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