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Corrupt or damage in the file system of My Passport drive. Improper ejection of WD My Passport drive. Interruptions while transferring files to your Mac or any other device. Power surge issue, etc. Perhaps your Mac has two USB port - the back and front ones. If the hardware seems to be OK, let's check the software that related to this disk problem - the driver. A driver is a software component that allows the operating system and a device to communicate with each other.
If your driver files go missing, outdated, or turn corrupted due to any virus invasion or invalid operation, the hard drive attached to your Mac will faile to work, resulting in an external hard drive not mounting on Mac.
But sometimes, a hard drive is not mounted because of internal disk errors like file system corruption, partition table lost, the directory is corrupted, etc. You WD hard drive will not be recognized by your Mac in these cases. Fortunately, you can fix the hard drive not mounting issue with the native disk repair tool, Disk Utility. Disk Utility's First Aid is a Mac built-in tool to verify and repair minor problems of a hard disk.
Whenever you have troubles with a hard disk, First Aid is your first solution. Otherwise, you have to retrieve as much of your data as possible. If you haven't backed up important files, it's high time to recover lost data from the unmounted hard drive first.
Preview the listed scanning results, choose files we want, and click 'Recover' button to get them back. After getting lost files back, you can fix WD My Passport for Mac hard drive not mounting error by reformatting without worrying about losing data.
This article mainly talks about a WD My Passport for Mac hard drive not mounting issue, analyzing why this issue occurs and how to repair this disk error without losing files on this drive. You can also easily recover lost data from external hard drive with iBoysoft Mac Data Recovery if the drive is corrupted due to virus attack, corrupted file system, power failure, etc.
Here is one typical case from apple. Will setting up the time machine of my mac erase the contents on the drive? Thank you. More Less. Reply I have this question too I have this question too Me too Me too. All replies Drop Down menu. Loading page content. May 16, AM in response to Zanaelf In response to Zanaelf Hello Zanaelf If you look at the format of the external hard drive, it is probable setup to NTFS and is something that Macs can read and copy from but cannot write to it.
Reply Helpful Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. May 17, AM in response to norm In response to norm Thank you very much, obviously it is what I feared , a forced reformat of the passport drive to FAT Reply Helpful 3 Thread reply - more options Link to this Post.
May 17, AM in response to Zanaelf In response to Zanaelf But it is s tempory fix to retrieve space on the mac to copy and store files, and read and write, but the Time Machine thing won work unless like you say that I have to format the drive into a FAT32 system. User profile for user: norm norm User level: Community Specialist.
Select the test you wish to perform and click the Start button. Click the Close button. Use an extraction utility such as WinZip to extract the files. If you already have an older version of WD FAT32 Formatter installed on your system, you will need to remove it first.
If you don't, go to step 6. This will remove all WDxxxx.
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