I am having difficulty getting my WD My Passport 1TB removable disk drive to show up in My Computer. The drive works fine on my Macbook Pro but won't show up on my Dell Dimension XPS (circa 2008) w/Windows 7 Pro (just updated). All drivers are up to date and usbstor.inf and usbstor.pnf files are in my C: windows inf folder. My Passport and WD SES Device both show up in Device Manager and seem to be in good working order, but My Passport does not show up in My Computer. The drive's part number is: WDBBEP0010BBK Any help is greatly appreciated! Hey there, Grotug.

HDD Journaled issues Hi Guys, I feel like I'm bumping my head against a brick wall - maybe someone can help - I too have the WD TV and a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) HDD, but I can't seem to disable the 'journaled' part. Western Digital manufactures two types of the WD My Passport hard drive. How to lock formula in excel using $. One has for Mac as part of the description and is preformatted to HFS+ (equivalent to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) File System. The other type is NTFS formatted and is simply called WD My Passport – no for Mac after the title.

@rgd1101 is exactly right. If the drive is formatted for Mac OS X, it probably uses the HFS+ file system, which is not supported by Windows, which leads to this problem. In order to be able to use it by both Mac OS X and Windows, you should reformat it with the exFAT file system, which is fully supported natively by both operating system (Mac OS X and Windows). Note that reformatting a hard drive is data destructive and you should backup any important data, which you can't afford to lose before you start this process.

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In case you want to format it with the exFAT file system, here's how to do it: Hope that helps.

I re-formatted my new 2TB WD external hard drive to work with Time Machine on my MacBook Pro, but when I connected it to my Airport Express router Time Machine no longer will work with it. It tells me that the backup disk is not available. It’s formatted the right way, with one partition, GUID and Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and non-encrypted. We backed up 4 computers to the 1TB Seagate through the Airport Express, and formatting that one last year was easy. But I’ve formatted and reformatted this WD drive multiple times, and every time it’ll work if I plug it in to my laptop and start Time Machine, but I’ll get that error message when I plug it into the AE (it’s the flat one, not the tower). I’m beginning to think that this hard drive is incompatible with Time Machine.

OK, a couple of things. Your message has now been posted in the correct forum by a moderator. Before, you were in the My Passport Wireless forum and that is what I said to you, Your passport is not a wireless type which is different than all the other hard drives that need to be connected to a computer, The wireless one doesn’t need to be connected to a computer. Now, what I wrote to you is wrong and I will edit my comment or delete it if I can.

So, you are starting fresh, I don’t have your equipment, so someone else needs to help you out. No, you don’t need to repost. This post jumps to the front of the queue each time there is a reply to it. Routers usually do not affect hard drive performance. Large HDs can affect computer and devices they are connected to sometime, but then I suppose your Mac would tell you so.