YouTube Partitioning WD My Passport on your Mac. Here is a YouTube video showing the partitioning of WD My Passport. I have set the video to the point where Acquevara shows the hard drive being partitioned. WD My Passport External Hard-drive Set Up Guide for Mac.

If the external drive has failed, the files on the passport can never be retrieved? The port on my External (not the same external as yours) broke and I removed the HD from the enclosure and inserted into a new external enclosure with no problems at all and still use it. Do any of your friends have an external that you could borrow and experiment with before you purchase one? You could take it to a local reputable tech shop and the files can be retrieved at a cost. From what I hear it's not cheap. Was hoping there was a way to retrieve the files Personally, I would try using Recuva (free) first: You'll have to remove the HD from within the current enclosure and insert into another enclosure (or docking station). You will need for the drive to be found on your system to be able to access the files for recovery.

Download and install onto your computer, then attach the external to your computer. If you go that route, let me know and I will create some instructions on how to accomplish this feat for you. Not hard to do at all. I've had to resort to this technique a few times with great success!

Even on a dead HD from my computer that was replaced. I don't want to get your hopes up though.

Here’s the scenario: You’ve decided to get an external USB drive to store and back up your data. You did your research, read the reviews and finally chose one.

You get it home, plug it into your Surface and NOTHING happens! What the heck? Well, believe it or not, this is a pretty common occurrence. It actually happened to me at my day job this week. As a result, I decided to write up a quick troubleshooting guide to help you, in the event that you run into the same problem. OK, it’s not so much stupid as much as an OS hardware software hiccup/ anomaly.

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Certainly, it’s not Surface-specific I can attest to Joanna’s point that this is more common, and not limited to Surface. My not-so-old Asus windows 8 /8.1 laptop experienced it; also, my really old Dell desktop I7 using windows 7 pro, sometimes had this situation. In both cases, the USB drive did not display in explorer, even though it was connected (you could even hear the connection sound/beep!). At those times, I searched and followed the steps mentioned above, and thanks to Joanna, I now have additional /alternative steps or approaches to use too! 🙂 As for this occurring in other OS, well I saw this once or twice in my Macs (MPB, Mini) when I was trying to plug in an NFTS formatted drive, but can’t recall many other times. [And] for Linux, I only recall that I always had to physical do a command to mount the drive, via “mount.” A bit of a hassle that may not be a problem in newer Linux packages (not using it now). Anyway, I did experience this phenomenon once on my Surface Pro 3 (never on the Surface Pro 2 BTW!).

Once I did the “diskmgmt” drill, it displayed. Also, future hook ups of that same usb drive never again had the problem! -even though the drive letter changed since I added another drive/device in the interim. Surface Pro 3 continues to be an excellent, quality choice for most future computing needs. It has been every bit as stable and reliable in the six-seven weeks I’ve used it as my super-great and wonderful Surface Pro 2 was before. (And it has a nicer screen and a more functional pen!). It is a great laptop -and (non gaming) desktop replacement!