wd my passport ultra not showing up on mac

Wd my passport ultra not showing up on mac for mac#
Wd my passport ultra not showing up on mac drivers#

Step 2: Select the uninitialized WD My Passport on the left part of the window. Wd my passport 0748 usb device driver is a windows driver. External detected but cant access arm-user, 10 hrs ago.

Wd my passport ultra not showing up on mac drivers#

Wd my passport 0748 usb device drivers download. Wd my passport 0748 usb device - there are 4 drivers found for the selected device, which you can download from our website for free. Step 1: Launch Disk Utility from Utilities. Protect device from squeeze, shock and drop off. I hear that using another SATA to USB controller enclosure makes the data accessible, but would rather hear something, anything from WD. If you have made a backup of WD My Passport or you don't care about the data on the drive, you can directly initialize the drive in Disk Utility. I’m hoping against hope WD will have a solution, and soon, to recover this data, otherwise, I may have to rip the drive out and try another enclosure from a third party. Go to the Sidebar tab, tick External disks under Locations.

Wd my passport ultra not showing up on mac for mac#

Select the External disks to show My Passport for Mac on the desktop. I did *not* re-run the Firmware update on it, fearing it would make matters worse, and did not re-init the drive with Disk Utility. Go to Finder > Preferences > General tab.

The problem is with this other MyPassport, which is unreadable/unmountable. I also downloaded and ran the Firmware update utility on that second drive, and re-scanned it to make sure, and it’s fine. Last week, it also appeared inaccessible, and I used Disk Utility to simple reinitialize the drive, since I could simply make another backup, which did work after wiping the drive. I have another WD My Passport for Mac, which I dedicate to backups with Time Machine. I filed a support ticket, but no response at all so far. Still, no luck, won’t mount the drive, even after erasing all WD software. Disk Utility can’t scan it, although it DOES see it, incorrectly, as a 2.2 TB drive (?).įollowing the advice on other messages on this forum, I completely eliminated any and all WD software from my machine, a Mac MBPro 2011 edition.

Was working perfectly for a long time, containing irreplaceable data! I upgraded to Mavericks about a week or two ago, but only tried to plug it in again last weekend.įailed to mount at all. Same experience here, with an external My Passport, 1 TB.