May 19, 2017 - Hi Guys, My WD my passport external hard drive is not showing up on my desktop. If it's not showing up in Disk Utility and won't mount, then it's. Paragon NTFS for Mac does also not see the drive. I'm only going by a similar problem I had with my Samsung SSD which showed nothing as the auto start. I have this external hard drive (WD My Passport 0730) which worked just fine a couple hours ago. But now it won't show up on any of my computers. When I plug it in, the drive itself does light up and it sounds like it's working though. On Mac, nothing happens at all. It's not in Finder or Disk Utility.
I'm not sure. When I bought the drive several years ago I only owned that Macbook Pro so it's quite possible I did. What would I need to do to make it recognizable by both? Then it probably formatted as HFS or HFS+ then.
There are some free utilities that let you read HFS from windows but not write. OSX can read NTFS but not write. If you plan on regularly moving data back and forth paragon's NTFS on Mac or HFS on windows are highly regarded and fairly cheap. You only need one. There are a couple of file systems both can read but they don't handle 1Tb very gracefully. Edit: exFAT would work pretty well for you actually. But only if you have windows 7/8 and OSX snow leopard or newer.
Table of Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • WD My Passport Which One? There two products under the WD My Passport title. One is WD My Passport and is designed to be plugged into and work straight away with a Windows PC. The other is called WD My Passport for Mac and is designed to be plugged into a Mac and work straight away. Regardless of which one you have you can use both on a Mac. So why pay the extra dollars for the one sold and branded for Mac when they both will work?
Getting started Go ahead unbox. Inside you’ll find your WD My Passport external drive, USB cable and quick start guide. If you haven’t purchased the WD My Passport drive yet and are thinking about your options, make sure you purchase a drive that is large enough for your needs. I won’t go into the ins and outs of that here. Torrent for mac os high sierra. Take a look at Still thinking about which to choose? Take a look a Or take Connecting up the WD Passport Drive on Mac Turn on and log into your Mac then you’ll be ready to connect up the My Passport drive. Understand what connections you have on your Mac The WD My Passport hard drive is powered from your Macs.
One end of the cable is USB 3.0 (and USB 2.0) compatible and that is the end you connect to your Mac. And assuming your Mac has a USB 3.0 or 2.0 port you can plug straight in. Macbook 3.0 USB Ports The other end of the WD cable has a Micro USB B port and plugs into the My Passport drive.
Should your Mac be of the latest variety then it will have USB 3.1 ports also referred to as USB C or Thunderbolt They are physically different as you can see but backwards compatible with the right USB cable. You will need to get yourself an adaptor cable that will plug into your Thunderbolt port at one end and the Micro USB B port at the other.
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The My Passport drive will run just fine on the Thunderbolt port of your newer Mac at the USB 3.0 speed specifications. Once Plugged In There is an LED light on the front of the WD My Passport drive, it blinks slow and steady when the drive is on standby, fast flashing when the drive is being read or written to by your Mac a steady light when the drive is not doing anything LED Off, when the drive is off. Your Mac should recognize the drive is plugged in and you’ll see a icon appear on your desktop representing the hard drive. External Drive Icon On Desktop Now you are ready to set up and use your My Passport drive. Decide what you would like to use the My Passport on your Mac for And then set it up that way. What do I mean by that? • For copy or pasting files of specific types of e.g.
Music or Photos • Transfer files from one Mac to another, perhaps taking your My Passport to another location • as a Backup destination for Time Machine • Share files between a Mac and a PC You can have your Passport drive specific to one thing. Say backups or split up or partitioned for several roles. How do I Start to use WD My Passport for Mac? To start, particularly if you have a WD My Passport no Mac in the title, you will need to format your external hard drive. I have a specific article to for Mac use the link to find out how. Then you may want to partition your WD My Passport drive. Again I have an article covering ‘How to Partition WD My Passport for Mac’ Why Partition?
Partitioning allows you to take advantage of the cheaper cost per terabyte of larger hard drives. Divide your drive into sections and use the drive for different things. Depending on what you plan to use your WD My Passport drive for I have 5 ways – how to use WD My Passport for Mac. Way 1: Creating Folders on your WD My Passport Drive With your Passport drive connected you double click on the desktop icon for the hard drive. Important Note If the copy of the files on the WD My Passport hard drive is the only copy of the files you have, then you are in a vulnerable position should anything happen to the My Passport drive.