

This fix worked: Go to Western Digital and download the update file. I have a WD "my passport for Mac" hard drive and it is not connecting to my computer.

Have you tried the trouble shooting test thing yet? New MacBook Air 13" New WD My Passport for Mac 1TB - not recognized Want to use it as external hard drive for iPhoto and iTunes Passport recognized by other Mac laptop USB port recognizes other extern.

Question: Q: WD My Passport for Mac won't mount on my Mac Pro My 1TB external hard drive is less than six months old and was working fine now won't mount on my Mac. But a month a ago I changed the file format so it would open on my mac and it opened for about a week and then now it won't recognize it but I can hear it spinning and vibrating and it lights up. Sometimes, your WD My Passport external drive not showing up on Mac just because the cable or port on the computer is bad. When the My … Blinking light is a default behavior as long as drive is connected to a powered on machine. Once partitions are set up it is easy to use them. When I powered down and removed my passport, then turn back on and did the same thing, it immediately loaded my internal hard drive in the disk utilities section. There is another possible reason is that the format of your WD My Passport external drive is not compatible with Mac.
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Way 5: How to Set Up WD My Passport to work with Time Machine. So you should prepare another disk to save the files. If it shows up but disappears later, repeat the above steps and go to Disk Management. I tried to use it again today but it does not show in my Devices on Finder anymore.
