Mar 06, 2020 In addition, the system supports My Book, My Book, My Book for Mac, My Book Duo, My Passport, My Passport Ultra (WD Backup), My Passport Ultra Metal, My Passport for Mac, My Passport for Mac, and My Passport Air. WD SmartWare WD SmartWare is another great tool for recuperating access to your hard drive. Apr 13, 2020 External Disk Selected. However, it’s highly unlikely that pointer #2 will help you get your WD My Passport mounted on Mac if the disk has some cryptic issues. Otherwise, on a healthier external drive, this option works flawlessly. Go to Disk Utility and identify if your WD My Passport is listed on the left-hand side of the interface. But here is a twist, an unmounted drive be it a WD My.
When I plug my WD passport into my computer (or any computer) it isn’t coming up. I can find it, but I can’t open it and view the files.
It does the same thing on a Windows or a Mac. However, if I plug it into the TV, it recognizes some or most of the files, so I know they’re still there. Is it a driver problem? Can anyone help before I lose 500 GB of my life?
May be a formatting problem. It may be formatted in a file system that neither Windows nor OS/X recognize.
Try this just after plunging in the WD right click my computer manage go to storage on win 7 or 8 old computer just disk management. see there there must be a drive without any drive letter assigned to it add a drive letter to it and check that your content will be got displayed Now.
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Does the drive have a letter assigned to it in Windows? You may have a corrupted file system on the drive. If it has a letter, you can check by doing the following:
If you are using Vista or higher, you will first need to open an elevated command prompt.
From the Start Menu, under Accesories find Command Prompt and right click. Select Run As Adminstrator and accept the User Account Control prompt.If you are using XP you can just run the Command Prompt.
When the command prompt appears, type CHKDSK driveletter: /F
(replacing driveletter with your assigned letter).It will check the file system and attempt to correct any errors. However, be aware depending on its condition you may still end up with corrupted files.
Some times this corruption can occur when unplugging from your TV or not safely removing the device from your computer.
i have a WD passport and experiencing that just go to a store and buy a new USB 3.0 Cable and it will fix your problem and dont forget to clean the usb ports of your pc
see if this microsoft solution of any help
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Tips-for-solving-problems-with-USB-devicesyou sat i can find it, how? How to reformat my passport for mac and windows. is it in disk management?
If this is a portable drive (no separate power supply), then this may be a power issue. Portable hard drives require a fair bit of power, and while they SHOULD fall within the USB specs (500mA for USB 2.0), some demand a little more. Equally, some hosts (computers, TVs etc) provide just a little below spec, so sometimes you get a bad combination.
To test this theory, try the HD on a number of different USB ports on different computers (not just your PC & Mac) and see if they can be read on any of them. If this is indeed the problem, and none of the ports on your computers provide enough power, then there are two things you can do: 1) get a USB 'Y' cable which will aggregate the power from two different sockets or 2) use an external power supply if your HD has a socket for one (if it does not, you may be able to obtain another HD enclosure, which does have such a connection, and transfer the drive itself to it.