- #Wd my passport ultra not showing up on macbook install#
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- #Wd my passport ultra not showing up on macbook password#
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. I want to format it but as I said it doesnt show up, even when I go to disk utilities.
#Wd my passport ultra not showing up on macbook pro#
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. My WD external harddrive will not show up on my macbook pro and I just bought it. 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. 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) 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.
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. I do not quit for those who are polite and cooperative.Thats the final piece. _ Windows MVP 2010-20 Millions helped via my tutorials and personally in forums for 12 years. Look For The External Hard Drive Icon On Your Desktop. The WD My Passport gets its power from the Mac and the drive’s LED light will start flashing as it powers up. Then plug the other end into a USB port on your Mac.
#Wd my passport ultra not showing up on macbook install#
Thoroughly research any product advertised on the sites before you decide to download and install it. Plug in your WD My Passport’s USB cable into its Micro USB B port. I have an older 4TB WD My Passport which shows works perfectly, so the connection on my Macbook is not faulty.
When I plug it in, I can’t even see it on disk utilities. Watch out for ads on the sites that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). I bought a 5TB black WD My Passport Ultra and it doesn’t appear on my Mac. The pages appear to be providing accurate, safe information. Standard Disclaimer: There are links to non-Microsoft websites. If you will wait to choose if I resolved your problem, I will keep working with you until it's resolved. Feel free to ask back any questions and keep me posted. I saw a post about getting the WD app, and I did that, but it doesn't recognize my device, or at least it is not detecting it.
#Wd my passport ultra not showing up on macbook password#
Microsoft Account password recovery is done in the online MS Acccount: I have a WD Ultra 'My Passport' external hard drive and had originally configured it to my MacBook pro, but I just received the surface pro 4 as a gift and I'm trying to use the external hard drive with this device. The password recovery disk has been updated to a flash stick and also test questions from the Sign in Screen as explained here:
#Wd my passport ultra not showing up on macbook software#
You also said it added a Protected GPT partition that you think was done by the Password Recovery software? Which software is this exactly? Windows Password recovery disk for Local Accounts does not do this, so something else might have done that which is unrelated.
Are you able to add one in Disk management, by right clicking on the drive to edit drive letter, then Add? That may be all it takes. Follow the steps here so I can see everything needed to advise you. Please post a screenshot of Disk Management, which I read like a doctor reads X-rays. If you will work with me I will be here to help until the issue is resolved. I'm Greg, an installation specialist, 10 year Windows MVP, and Volunteer Moderator.