Step 2: Right-click on the WD My Passport external hard drive, you'll see a context menu of many options, among which choose "Format". Step 3: Follow the onscreen wizard. Choose a proper file system and complete the process of fixing a not accessible WD My Passport external hard drive...
WD MY Passport for Mac not mounting after 13.4. 1 update I've had this happen to me in the past with Western Digital products and wondering whether there is a fix. My WD My Passport for Mac won't mount onto the desktop and I cannot back up my data. The external hard drive hasn't...
If you don't want to use Smartware , you won't need to install the driver and the drive will work fine anyways. According to Western Digital: The WD SES driver is not required for the drive to be recognized by a computer. If the OS is requesting a driver, please see Answer ID 17...
All of a sudden I cannot unlock the WD My Passport either on the desktop or the MacBook Air. I've been doing this since 2013 The message I get reads: "You must run the WD Drive Unlock application from the WD Drive Unlock CD associated with the drive you want to unlock. I don't...
Disconnected the WD HD to my Lenovo laptop. Here is what i see in Disk Management:when right-clicking on the drive :I can re-connect the D back to the Xbox, format it, and it... Western Digital External “My Passport” Hard Drive formally used on W11 isn’t being... in Windows ...
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD1001FALS-40Y6A0, 1 TB Serial ATA Device: OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5680H USB Device: USB 2.0 Bus USB Device: Hub USB Device: My Passport 0740 USB Device: Card Reader USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller USB Device: USB 2.0 Bus...
So my recommendation now is to yank out the USB drive and then plug it back to see if that helps (which may or may not work, since Windows appears to do its hardest to cache a partition layout, instead of properly refreshing it when it should). Now, those with a keen eye might ...
So. I restarted in Safe Mode. Now, Mavericks recognizes the password for my external! Ain't that something? I would love to know why it doesn't recognize it in Normal boot mode. But I still have a problem. Of course, it logically follows that I should decrypt my drive, erase Maverick...
I plugged in my Timemachine external drive [WD MyBook], but the most recent "save" there has the "restore" button greyed out. That's scary. I'm willing to do a complete re-install if necessary, but I hope that one of you has a simpler solution that will simply get my free space...
Cannot reformat WD drive I have a WD my passport ultra, and I haven't used it for a while until now, but it is corrupt. There is an NTFS volume, and an HFS volume. The NTFS volume mounts, but the HFS won't mount, and I can't reformat either volume, or initialize the disk ...