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#Wd drive utilities error formatting my passport how to#
I'm extremely frustrated because this drive is in a read-only mode, and I can't figure out how to change it! Any suggestion to fix this?"
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"I have a WD My Passport 320GB external hard drive that I am trying to hook up to my iMac for the first time. However, many users complain their WD My Passport is read-only on Mac as the user below in the WD community. My Passport comparison, WD My Passport external hard drives are the more widely used.
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Its product line covers WD My Passport, WD Easystore, WD My Passport Ultra, WD My Book, WD Elements, WD My Passport for Mac, and more. Western Digital is one of the most popular hard drive manufacturers. Scenario 3: Your WD My Passport hard drive is corrupted Scenario 2: You have read-only permission to access the WD My Passport hard drive Scenario 1: Your WD My Passport hard drive is NTFS-formatted On my XP computer, it doesn’t recognize it at all in Disk managae.ģ.) It is recognized by the control panel as both a USB device, and as a disk driveĤ.) I believe its original chord was wobbly, and may have led to electrical short. If it is an error, this is just another symptom)Ģ.) When I right click on My computer, and go to manage, it shows me the space is simply unallocated, something to the tune of “you must initialize this drive for use”, and fails to initialize. Why? (And if I figure out the trick, and it doesn’t compromise the drive, you better believe I’ll post it. In several ases, it is reading 2 Terabytes. Using your computer’s file management utility to open either the WD Unlocker VCD or the WD SmartWare VCD, depending on the hardware configuration of your My Book or My Passport drive and double-clicking the Unlock.exe fileĬlicking Start > My Computer and double-clicking the WD Unlocker VCD or the WD SmartWare VCD icon under Devices with Removable Storage "Įdit: I felt I should edit this and add whatever information I could…ġ.) The amount of space it is supposed tohave is 500 Gigabytes. Start the WD SmartWare Drive Unlock utility by either: If you do not see a prompt to provide your password, then either:Ĭlick the drive image above the Drive is locked message on the Home tab to display the WD SmartWare drive unlock dialog.What am I doing wrong? How do I unlock it if: It then shows me the homescreen, and the drive shows up as locked. Go right ahead, I have no files on it…it says “There has been an error erasing your drive”, and won’t continue after 2 seconds.
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#Wd drive utilities error formatting my passport software#
When I actually used the WD SmartWare (my friend suggested it may be a software problem), it prompts me to reformat the thing.
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The best I can get is some recognition on the manage, and only on Windows 7.
#Wd drive utilities error formatting my passport windows 7#
The last time I formatted it, I am 95% sure I fomratted in FAT32, and everything is gone - it is barely being read by the XP computer, not showing up in XP, Vista, or Windows 7 “My computer” as a drive. I formatted (I believe in FAT32), and the software reloaded - I guess this is expected. Switched out the chord fora different miniUSB, and things seemed to be more stable.Īfter a while, the information started to be inaccessible - so I transferred what I could off of there. When I first got the Passport, things weren’t working properly.