2012年1月7日 · I have a WD My Passport which comes up as 'F' drive. I use this for backing up music & photos etc. It appears to be no longer working and it asks me to format it, which I have tried and windows is unable to do this.

2023年1月9日 · No help either. So, I'll take the WD unit to the shop and drill a hole in it. My Amazon Basics 3TB external drive works fine on both Windows 10 and Windows 11. Probably not quite as old as the WD unit but, as I recall, less expensive. My backup going forward is a two-drive docking station. It took around 5 minutes to see the hard drive I put in it.

2019年11月24日 · I have been using a Western Digital My Passport external USB 3.0 hard drive for years as a backup drive. My old computer died and I just replaced it. Now when I plug in the external drive, I cannot

Assign a drive letter: a. Right-click the Start button and select 'Disk Management.' b. Locate your WD My Passport drive (it might show as 'Unallocated' or 'Not Initialized'). c. Right-click on the drive and choose 'Change Drive Letter and Paths.' d. Click on 'Add,' then assign an available drive letter and click 'OK.' Enable USB mass storage: a.

2015年10月7日 · I'm truly sorry to hear about your issues with the WD My Passport external drive. :(I'd recommend you to go to Disk Management and check how the drive is recognized there. Another thing you could try is Uninstalling and Re-installing the WD My Passport from Device Manager. If you have a spare USB cable, you could try plugging the HDD with it as ...

2020年2月22日 · A small portion of drive space on your new My Passport or My Book hard drive has been used to create a Virtual CD (VCD). The VCD contains the WD SmartWare installation software, the encryption and password protection application, User Manuals, and other resource files. If what I am seeing is to be expected, I am sorry for taking up your time.

2016年11月25日 · My case number is 1364088675. I have a WD My Passport Ultra external hard drive that I used with a previous computer. Within the last three months I purchased a new laptop (Acer Aspire ES1-571) and installed Windows 10 pro on it.

2014年5月29日 · A WD "my passport" 1Tb external hard drive, which was working properly, on Windows 7 Ultimate, suddenly become unrecognized by windows, attached it to a laptop with Windows 7 Basic and the same result.

2014年4月29日 · So my passport does not show up under My Computer. it shows up however under devices and hardware but is not accessible. i have tried fixing it through disk manager. i cannot initialize it because of

2018年6月2日 · After the hard drive is uninstalled, unplug the USB cable. Wait for 1 minute and then reconnect the USB cable. The driver should automatically load Check for the USB drive in Windows Explorer Note Connecting your USB external hard drive into a non-powered USB hub can cause a lack of enough power to operate the external drive.