Reformatting a Western Digital My Passport hard drive to function well on Windows and Macintosh systems is neither time-consuming nor technologically demanding. Back up all important information on the drive before beginning; any data left on the drive will be destroyed during the reformatting process. Here’s something your My Passport for Mac Quick Install Guide might not tell you: Hard drives usually come formatted in two different ways, one catering to Windows and one catering to Mac. I have eventually got my personal mac, the problem is I have a WD My Passport portable HD, with all my art, photos, and data I had done with the PC. I wish to copy files from my mac to the drive, it wont allow me. Plug in the passport while the windows 8 computer is on. Explorer will not recognize it until it is formatted in the windows format, but Disk Management should see it. Explorer will not recognize it until it is formatted in the windows format, but Disk Management should see it.
It shows the disk 1TB at the bottom of the screen in BLACK = Unallocated Above shows my active C drive and DVD ROM and a SD CARD all in BLUE What next? The key is I DONT want to lose the data on the disk just as a reminder.
Right click the drive in disk management, go to properties, click the volumes tab, what does it say for partition style? And is it showing the whole 1tb as unallocated? This could mean windows doesn't understand the partition table,so check that out and let me know what it says. Windows recognizes MBR and GPT partitions. It could be that your drive is using the Apple Partition Map,which isn't supported in windows. If so ill check what to do to remedy this situation. Is drive ok?can you go back to a mac and see your data?
If not it is a hardware issue and you will have to have a data recovery performed if you can see your data on a mac then. You have 2 partitions with the boot partition being mac os journaled. You have 2 choices to see your data.find a piece of software so windows can read the drive hfs explorer comes to mind or find a mac and copy files say to a dvd and after you got all your data safe reformat entire drive in a file system windows can use then put data back on good luck. Is drive ok?can you go back to a mac and see your data?
If not it is a hardware issue and you will have to have a data recovery performed hey the drive is okay. Im using a friends computer at work to transfer the NTFS files to another Windows formatted drive and its going.but its slow. I just want to be able to see the drive in windows.its so weird to me. WHAT YOU WROTE BELOW IS CORRECT. If you can see your data on a mac then. You have 2 partitions with the boot partition being mac os journaled. You have 2 choices to see your data.find a piece of software so windows can read the drive hfs explorer comes to mind or find a mac and copy files say to a dvd and after you got all your data safe reformat entire drive in a file system windows can use then put data back on My real goal is to plug in the drive into windows and see the NTFS portion of the drive.i have used the HFS Explorer and I can see the OSx portion of the drive. Best free email mac for google.
I have a Western Digital My Passport 1TB USB3 that is readable from a laptop, but would not appear as a drive on my PC that runs Windows 7 64bit. I fixed the problem by reinstalling the driver for the drive with the following steps: • Open control panel, view devices and printers, find the drive (mine is labeled 'My Passport 0730'). • Open properties of the drive, go to hardware tab, it will show 3 items in 'device functions' • Open the properties of the item with type 'disk drives', press 'change settings' • Go to 'driver' tab, press 'uninstall' to uninstall the driver • Unplug the drive, plug it back • Windows will behave like the drive is plugged for the first time and install the driver for it After those steps, I can read the drive normally.
This seems to be an odd issue with WD My Passport drives. For some reason, the USB registration of the WD Drive gets messed up. It happens to me every couple months with mine on Windows 7 64bit. Here's how I fix it: • Unplug the drive from the computer • Open a command prompt as Administrator • Type the following commands: • set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 • devmgmt.msc • In the Device Manager: • Click View • Select Show Hidden Devices • Expand the Disk Drives section • Right-click any 'WD My Passport' entries and select Uninstall • Expand your Universal Serial Bus controllers section • Right-click any entries here that are a light-grey icon and select Uninstall • Reconnect the WD My Passport drive and it should reappear as an available drive in Windows Explorer. What is cell clumping.