Format My Passport Essential For Mac

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Summary In this article, we will analyze how a WD My Passport external drive could be brought back to life after it fails to mount on Mac. Yes, is also taken care of in this blog. Popular Uses of WD My Passport WD external hard drive such as My Passport are suitable and trusted devices serving as the best backup tools for Mac internal drive’s data. Mounting a WD My Passport!

A stable WD My Passport is readily available on the Desktop, Finder, and Disk Utility when the drive gets plugged into Mac’s USB port. Further, transfer of files to-and-from the WD My Passport is made possible when the drive is successfully mounted on the Mac computer.

After the job is done, the WD is safely removed from the Mac. How and Why WD My Passport is Not Recognized on Mac? There are several possibilities for a WD My Passport hard drive going invisible on a Mac system. Those possibilities could range from:.

WD’s corrupt partition table. WD’s damaged file system. Disk errors on WD.

Hard drive faulty cable. Wear and tear on WD. Failed Restore on WD. Failed Partitioning on WD My Passport. Bad blocks. Lastly, damage to a WD device Identifying an WD My Passport?

You can try below actions to determine if the WD My Passport external hard drive is mounting on your Mac: 1. Connect the WD My Passport to your system, 2. Wait for the drive to appear in the Finder and Desktop.

Note: If the WD gives no response after getting connected with the Mac then go to Finder. I have MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6, and I accidentally my external USB drive without eject it properly. After that I had the same issue.

It shown up in Disk Utility but greyed out after connected it back. Could not eject it, could not remount, virtually could not do any thing.

I tried all the solutions posted currently, none worked. Rebooted my Mac and tried connect the drive again, no helps. It was still greyed out in Disk Utility and finally, on Disk Utility, I right click on the greed out External, and selected image from, hit the cancel button on the popup, and all the sudden, it became alive.

Not sure what is going on here, but I did not have to erase the drive. Hi there, I’m trying to use a brand new WD drive for my mac, which is running High Sierra 10.13.3, and I’m realizing I bought the drive formatted for Windows. I’m having a very hard time trying to get this drive reformatted for Mac. I’ve been searching forums but to no avail. When in Disk Utility, on the left, this drive is now called “disk3s1”. At the top of Disk Utility, underneath this title it says: “USB External Physical Volume – MS-DOS (FAT)”. I am to get this drive converted for a mac now.

Erasing, Partitioning, First Aid, Mount have all run into errors. Do you have a simple step by step of how to fix this? Like I said, I haven’t even used this drive yet and I’m running into problems already. 🙁 Thank you in advance for any help.

Hello all, Today I bought the 4tb “My Passport” from Best Buy. I came home to set it up and backup my computer (a 2015 MacBook Pro running El Capitan 10.11.6) Before I did anything to it, I read through the user’s guide and saw that I needed to format it to use with my MacBook. So, I followed the steps- I went into Disk Utility, selected “My Passport,” clicked “erase,” selected “OS X Extended (Journaled)” as the format, and clicked “erase” once again. After working for a moment, it told me that the operation had failed because “MediaKit reports not enough space on drive”.

I FIND ALL THIS LAUGHABLE. I signed in here just to vent about exactly this. Every time I buy a hard drive it’s a gong show.

So, my seagate falls off my table tonight- toast. I buy this my passport -seems tougher. Of course -Cant get it to format. I am tempted to just click the ‘my passport’ instead of the subheading but oh no, i spend an hour in safe mode following this: I found it extremely amusing that when I open this forum the first topic at the top is exactly this WHY WHY does it have to be this way - mis honkin leading instructions every timeI will improve the conversation by saying thx to Donald for helping Dean and Dean, you aren’t the only one ps I knew i was in trouble right off the bat when I googled the WD website and within a paragraph there the red ink telling me about the possible error and trouble. I am totally pissed. I purchase this wd passport 2 tb and I feel like smashing it against a wall.

I simply wanted a normal external hd that I could attach to my computer and use it. Couldn’t do anything. I don’t need all this ■■■■ security or backup.

I tried reformating it but wouldn’t let me. Couldn’t eject it, had to unplug the usb but it was still on my computer and it refused to eject. Locked my computer and had to restart. Wouldn’t even mount anymore. Piece of ■■■■.

Returning tomorrow. How do people give this thing such good reviews beats me.