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#HOW TO OPEN A WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT FOR MAC FOR MAC#
#HOW TO OPEN A WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT FOR MAC INSTALL#
#HOW TO OPEN A WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT FOR MAC SOFTWARE#
#HOW TO OPEN A WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT FOR MAC WINDOWS#

If the WD My Passport for Mac still doesn't show up or work on Mac after the basic checks, go ahead to try out the solutions as below to make it show up on Mac.

#HOW TO OPEN A WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT FOR MAC WINDOWS#

Connect the WD My Passport to another Mac or Windows PC, which will find out if it is the incompatible file system of the drive that makes this WD My Passport undetectable. Reboot your Mac computer to see if your WD My Passport drive is not showing up in Disk Utility/Finder or not.Ĥ. Check whether the USB cable and USB port are not working by connecting other hard drives to this USB port or cable and see if that makes a difference.ģ. Try quickly plug or slowly plug, which sometimes just works for no reason.Ģ.

Safely remove the WD My Passport and reconnect it to the USB port. Usually, malfunctioned USB port or Mac computer, a broken USB cable, and some hardware problems could make WD My Passport not show up.īefore going further troubleshooting, doing the following basic checks is very necessary.ġ.

Method 6: Repair your WD hard drive in a local shop.

Method 5: Recover data and erase the drive.

Method 4: Check & repair the drive in Disk Utility.

#HOW TO OPEN A WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT FOR MAC INSTALL#

Method 3: Install the latest WD drive unlock application.

However, the solution to make the boot from USB to work is just to create the small boot partition at the start of the disk. I have the last firmware 1.010įirst I thought that the problem is related to the SES device that seen in the boot menu along with MyPassport (the actual disk). After this, it worked well on my USB2 system (Asus K52JR). It will be maximum 8GB, so you will need a separate partition for the root. To be on the safe side, you should use a boot partition at the start of the disk, below cylinder 1023. On other BIOS-es, I could install the grub files in a partition at the end of the disk. It seems that on some BIOS versions the boot partition needs to be at the start of the disk (below cylinder 1023).

I tried to reinstall the Linux, it installed without errors but it did not boot correctly. I tried to repair the grub on the third system but without luck. The same installation did boot on 2 recent systems (USB3 and USB2), but failed on a third system 3 years old (USB2). Symptom: the Linux installed without problems, but it did not boot (no Grub message, just a black screen with a clipping cursor). I had some problems with the Grub2 boot however (Ubuntu 11.10 64bits). You can install and boot Linux from the “WD My Passport”, I have the one with USB3 500GB. Get Linux, play with it, and offer a few words of helpful advice to users of your products with this superior operating system.

#HOW TO OPEN A WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT FOR MAC SOFTWARE#

If I may offer a word of unsolicited advice to the folks at WD it would be this: Don’t make yourselves sound ignorant to users of your products who have found that Linux is not only virus free and rich in useful, free software but is also easier to use than Windows. The commands above back up Windows itself but do not back up the Linux operating system itself, because it is available on the live CD. Later, rsync figures out what needs to be transferred and the process goes much faster. Sudo rsync -azvv /media/FC32282f3227ECF8/ /media/"My Passport"/WindowsPartitionĮach of the last two commands may take quite a while when first performed and every byte has to be transferred. Sudo rsync -azvv /home/ /media/"My Passport"/LinuxPartition I immediately saw that the external drive was called “My Passport” while the Windows partition was called FC32282f3227ECF8. So I opened a Linux Terminal, and did: cd /media The first job was to find out what Linux calls the Windows partition and what it calls the external USB hard disk. My system has the complication that it has dual boot and a Windows partition. You should read before going further here. It is well explained in Ubuntu Community Documentation, which you can see by clicking here. The answer – or at least one of a number of answers – is _ rsync _. I set out to find out what Linux had to offer. Linux can do anything better than Windows, The only question was to find appropriate, reliable, free software to manage the backups.Īnything Windows can do Linux can do better, So I would not have to reformat the disk, as do the poor Mac users. I plugged it into my computer running Ubuntu Linux and immediately saw that Linux could read and write the disk. Not aware of that problem – it is not mentioned on the box – I bought a WD “My Passport” external hard disk. It only mentions that there may exist “generic” drivers. Western Digital’s documentation is very explicit that it, Western Digital, knows nothing about Linux.