My passport was connected to Airport extreme and I got a “Disk needs repair” message. No noise on the hard drive. Connected the external HD to my Mac but it won’t mount. I tried mounting with `diskutil mount /dev/pathToDisk` and `diskutil mount readOnly /dev/pathToDisk` but it won’t mount. Mar 22, 2014 My Passport Drive - blinking light, will not mount. I have a WD 1TB My Passport for Mac external USB drive that no longer mounts. All I get is a blinking light. There are no unusal noises coming from the drive. I have ran Apple Disk Utlity but it cannot repair the drive. I have a new external USB drive. I need to get my design files copied off!
My Passport For Mac Instructions
A WD My Passport formatted with a Mac file system will be a dud on Windows and vice-versa. Thankfully, FAT32 and ex-FAT formats have survived to date, and these are the file systems to make your WD My Passport work with a Mac and a Windows PC simultaneously. In the next 5 minutes read, you will master yourself in formatting a WD My Passport. When I installed the Paragon NTFS for Mac and restarted my macbook the WD Passport drive seemed to mount and appeared for just a moment after logging back in and then it disappeared. Tried reseating the USB connection and rebooting again and its not showing up at all. Initially the drive mounted fine out of the box. HI all, I have a 2-year old My Passport for Mac 1TB (USB 3.0) WDBGCH0010BSL Model, and recently it seems to have failed. When I try to mount it, I get a brief whirring followed by a beepclick sound, and this repeats every 3 seconds for about 2:38 minutes (repeatable time measurement, which is interesting in istelf).The drive is always visible in the USB Device Tree section of “About this.
Drive Partition and Format - El Capitan or Later
- Open Disk Utility in the Utilities' folder.
- After Disk Utility loads select the drive (out-dented entry with 1TB WD Passport...) from the side list.
- Click on the Erase tab in the Disk Utility toolbar. A panel should drop down.
- In the drop down panel set the partition scheme to GUID. Set the Format type to APFS (SSDs only) or Mac OS Extended (Journaled.)
- Click on the Apply button and click on the Done button when it is activated.
- Quit Disk Utility.
Wd My Passport For Mac Not Mounting
Aug 15, 2018 11:02 PM