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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. This is the sound of the read/write heads moving up the ramp that guides them into place over the data storage platters. Connecting up the WD Passport Drive on Mac. Your Mac just doesn’t display external drives on your desktop by default. And not because there is anything wrong with your external drive. Then it’s quite common for your WD Passport drive not to appear on your Mac’s desktop. If you’ve never used an external hard drive on your Mac computer before. Then it’s quite common for your WD Passport drive not to appear on your Mac’s desktop. Your My Passport Not Showing Up Mac Desktop. PS: In WIN 7 OS, it gets recognized in all USB 3.0 ports as well.
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I tried reinstalling drivers from device manager, but same problem.
I am having WD My passport Ultra (1tb) and its not recognized in any USB 3.0 ports, after initial one time If I try my HDD in any USB 2.0 ports its recognized instantly.
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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. Clicking Western Digital My Passport Not Recognized The Dreaded Click of Death A healthy hard drive clicks once upon starting up. Suddenly this was not detected and following is happening after connecting in my laptop (Win 7 64 bit OS) a) Light appearing on the drive. Your My Passport Not Showing Up Mac Desktop. WD My passport - Not recognized in Win 10.
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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. Follow the below steps: Type devmgmt.msc in the search bar and hit Enter. So, to troubleshoot the non-detected WD My Passport issue, uninstall the USB drivers. There are chances that the drivers are not updated or have some issues.
(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. Now, check whether it is showing on the computer system.