My Passport Ultra Mac Not Showing Up

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So I have a My Passport drive that I had back before my mac computer killed itself. It has pretty much every bit of information I really hold dear, and on any mac computer I can find everything on it.

Trying to use it on my girlfriend’s computer is a completely different matter. It doesn’t register that the drive even exists, though the device connected noise sounds. It doesn’t give me any option to format the drive, I don’t get any kind of error message. The closest thing this computer gets to admitting the drive exists is that in the devices and printers window it shows that a drive is there, and that the drive is “working properly”.

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Jan 08, 2018 The problem is with the USB cable. Reconnect the WD drive via a new USB hub or to a new PC. If the WD Passport drive shows up, it is the damaged USB hub that stops WD from showing up. If the WD passport is not detected either on your current or the new PC, replace the WD drive with a new one. The problem is with the USB cable. Reconnect the WD drive via a new USB hub or to a new PC. If the WD Passport drive shows up, it is the damaged USB hub that stops WD from showing up. If the WD passport is not detected either on your current or the new PC, replace the WD drive with a new one.

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I tried plugging in a 1 TB WD drive that was also previously formatted for macintosh just to see if it would have a similar problem - it did not. The 1 TB drive works just fine and installed all of its drivers properly.

Someone please help, this is very frustrating.

  • Try to initialize WD My Passport on Mac. 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. Step 1: Launch Disk Utility from Utilities. Step 2: Select the uninitialized WD My Passport on the left part of the window.
  • Here's how to Fix WD My Passport Ultra Not Detected in your Windows 10 & macOS.
  • Why Is My WD Passport Not Showing UP My Passport Ultra Mac Installation. There is a lot of reasons that will cause your external hard drive not showing up or not detected on Windows PC. Check the following list, you may find the exact cause that makes your WD Passport Ultra external not recognized error: 1.

Completely repartition the drive and reformat. If you have installed any WD software on your computer be sure to remove it completely.

So, I just bought a WD Passport Ultra 2TB to use for changing files between a Windows and a Mac. I downloaded NTFS-3G to be able to read and write to my Mac and Windows. Solved WD Passport only works on mac - need to copy all files (in GBs) to Windows; solved WD HDD from iMac won't show up with Windows/Mac as external HDD.; solved WD My Passport Ultra does not.


Drive Partition and Format


1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.

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If you are preparing an external or a non-startup drive, then open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.


2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say 'Verified' then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.


3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed.


4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.

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5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.

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6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.


Steps 4-6 are optional but should be used on a drive that has never been formatted before, if the format type is not Mac OS Extended, if the partition scheme has been changed, or if a different operating system (not OS X) has been installed on the drive.

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    File Size: 15.5 MB
    Version: 2.0.0.63
    Release Date: 08/05/2019Release Notes
    Description
    This installer - WD Drive Utilities and WD Security, are contained within the WD Drive Utilities and the WD Security zip files and installs custom Western Digital software for WD USB and FireWire enabled external hard drives under Macintosh computers.
    Supported Operating Systems
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    • Windows 7 (32 & 64bit)
    • Windows 8 (32 & 64bit)
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    Instructions
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    WD Security for Windows
    File Size: 14.6 MB
    Version: 2.0.0.63
    Release Date: 08/05/2019Release Notes
    Description
    This installer - WD Drive Utilities and WD Security, are contained within the WD Drive Utilities and the WD Security zip files and installs custom Western Digital software for WD USB and FireWire enabled external hard drives under Macintosh computers.
    Supported Operating Systems
    • Windows Vista (32 & 64 bit)
    • Windows 7 (32 & 64bit)
    • Windows 8 (32 & 64bit)
    • Windows 8.1 (32 & 64bit)
    • Windows 10
    Instructions
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    Version: 1.9.7117
    Release Date: 08/05/2019Release Notes
    Description
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    Supported Operating Systems
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    File Size: 3.30 MB
    Version: 4.0.1.4
    Release Date: 03/05/2019
    Description
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    Supported Operating Systems
    • Windows 7
    • Windows 8
    • Windows 8.1
    • Windows 10
    Instructions
    1. Disconnect all other external drives from the computer except one My Book or My Passport.
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    3. Extract the file using an extraction utility.
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    5. Click 'Continue.'
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    Version: 2.4.21
    Release Date: 05/25/2018Release Notes
    Unsupported Products
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    Supported Operating Systems
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    • Windows 8
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