Fixed: Western Digital My Passport X 2TB not Recognised Issue
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Have bought a WD My Passport for Mac and I have plugged it in and downloaded the software but having never used an external hard rive and with the instructions in the downloaded manual not making sense (not a techy). Strike force heroes&& try the games. Fancy pants advnturegaming potatoes recipe. How do I go about downloading all the info on my mac to the hardrive? Sorry for such a basic question but I bought this on the Amazon reviews saying it is very simple to set up.
If your computer does not recognize the WD My Passport 2TB hard drive, follow these guidelines to resolve it.
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- My Passport Ultra for Mac is formatted for Time Machine and ready to deliver plug-and-play storage out of the box. With WD Discovery™ software, you can also work across both Mac and PC. We provide a downloadable HFS+ driver for Windows® 10, 8.1 or 7 to enable you to read and write to your My Passport Ultra for Mac drive without reformatting.
- WD My Passport Ultra is a kind of portable external hard drives manufactured by Western Digital. It is favored by many Windows users. However, while it is an excellent external hard drive, users also encounter some issues such as WD My Passport Ultra not showing up, WD My Passport Ultra not detected and WD Passport not recognized.
Wd My Passport For Mac Manual
- Click the Windows icon on the desktop to open the Start menu.
- Enter ‘Computer Management’ in the text field and press Enter.
- Locate the Disk Management option below Storage and click it.
- There should be a hard drive with the name (Disk a Partition a) without a volume letter such as C, D, or E.
- Right-click it and choose ‘Change Drive Letter and Paths’ from the contextual menu.
- The ‘Allow access to this volume by using the following drive letter and paths’ screen appears. Click Add.
- The ‘Add Drive Letter or Path’ window appears.
- Click the ‘Assign the following drive letter’ radio button and then select a volume letter from the drop-down list. Click OK.
- You can try a simpler method first to check whether there is a problem with the WD hard drive/USB port/USB cable.
- Try connecting the WD hard drive to a different USB port on your computer.
- Use another USB cable to connect the My Passport 2TB to your computer. If the WD hard drive is detected, it means that there is a problem with the old USB cable.
- Update the WD My Passport X 2TB setup driver and check whether this solves the detection issue.