

I did as usual, but Time Machine would have the download bar loading for several minutes with a message saying "Preparing the disk". Today, I wanted to do another backup since I hadn't done one in a while. I used it throughout the year for sporadic backups with Time Machine, with no problem.

She got the one for PC, but somehow I managed to be able to use it on my Macbook Air with some tweaking around. I'll try to explain my situation as concisely as possible.My mom got me a MyPassport by WD (an external hard drive plugged with USB cable) last year. It would be easier if someone would just say do such-n-such and it shows up. Like to down grade but I'm really not sure if everything is saved in the time machine plus reading some instructions on downgrading to Big Sur that are posted I get lost fairly quickly. Trouble is I have time machine saving the backups on the external G-force drive which I can't access now. Did I back up before upgrading? Well.I use time machine(is that not good?). Tried shutting down restarting, disconnecting/reconnecting, patting my head and rubbing my stomach at the same time. I can see the drive in System Information and I can see it in Disk Utility but the Mount is greyed out so I can't select Mount. I made sure the Finder left column showed everything.

Upgraded to Monterey and now my external G-force drive usb-c(that I got from Apple) doesn't show up in Finder, I can't figure any way to access it.
