#WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT FOR MAC NOT WORKING MAC MAC#

Your Mac can be recognizing your WD passport, but it is not set to show to the icon on the screen. people that assume a non-working HD is a 'bad' HD when in fact the HD is just 100% fine, its just that miserable little circuit card. One of the leading causes that your Mac might not be showing your WD passport can be that your Mac is not formatted to display external devices on the desktop. If a HD is over 3 months old (most all 'bad' HD fail usually before the 3 month mark) and LESS THAN 5 years old and treated very well. people that assume a non-working HD is a 'bad' HD when in fact the HD is just 100% fine, its just that miserable little circuit card. The application can also be 'unpinned', which causes the application to open in a window. WD Discovery is a tray application a small icon appears in the Windows system tray in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.

If a HD is over 3 months old (most all 'bad' HD fail usually before the 3 month mark) and LESS THAN 5 years old and treated very well. Security, can be installed from your My Passport Ultra for Mac drive. Disk utility shows that there is still the 200 GB being used, but is unable to unmount it.

#WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT FOR MAC NOT WORKING MAC CRACK#

You have 2 options, offload all data onto another HD that will work on that one Mac, OR crack open the HD case and remove the HD itself and put into another enclosure ($10-15$ ebay).Ī SATA card is about the size of a stick of gum, its plugged into the HD with a female USB connection on the other side, it unplugs in 1/2 a second from the HD once you get into the HD casing. My 1 TB WD external drive was working fine, and I plugged it in today and no files are showing up. This is why some of us HD 'collectors' call this the 'haunted HD syndrome' 😐, where a HD acts utterly illogical and contrary to common sense diagnostics (works fine on ONE Mac but not another)

Connect the WD My Passport to another Mac computer or Windows PC, which will find out if it is the incompatible file system of the drive that makes this WD My Passport undetectable. It makes very little logical sense to most (for obvious reasons), but that that one Mac is no longer able to communicate with said HD due to the SATA card. Reboot your Mac computer to see if your WD My Passport drive is not showing up in Disk Utility/Finder or not. The case being, your other Macs will read/ write to this HD fine, but this one Mac wont. (and you swapped out HD USB cables too on the 'bad' HD?).Īfter swapping cables between the '2 identical WD USB HD', you have (nearly 100% certainty) a bad SATA card as I stated much earlier.

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