How To Uninstall My Passport For Mac

I had the same situation. Plugged in my WD Passport 0704 and nothing came up or showed up as a removable device in 'My Computer'. Also nothing showed up in Disk Management as well. But it was allowing me to safely eject the drive. I searched the net and found most of them mention the above 'disk management' solution'.

How to install a My Passport external USB or FireWire drive in Windows. Connect the supplied USB or FireWire cable to the Passport drive. Is USB or Firewire bus and does not require a separate power supply. A Power Booster Cable (Not currently available for. Hi there, Can anyone tell me how to reinstall the software that was on my WD External HD (My passport Ultra). I stupidly formatted it in disk utility (on my Mac) and it wiped all the software?).

If none of the above works. This worked for me: suggestion - unplug the drive before trying this. And uninstall all the light-grey devices that will display. I also remove light-grey devices under 'WD Drive Management Devices' ------------------------------------------------------ jack4rall - Apr 25, 2012 02:27PM Hello, Try this 1 Click on Start --> In search box, type cmd. When it show 'Command Prompt' or 'cmd.exe' in the search list, right-click on it and select the option 'Open as administrator'. Open the command prompt and type the below commands: set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 (--> Press Enter) start devmgmt.msc (--> Press Enter) 'Device Manager' window will be opened.

Now in the device manager, click on 'View' --> Select 'Show hidden devices' Now expand the nodes 'Disk Drives' and 'Universal serial bus controller' by clicking on '+' symbol. If you find any light-greyed entries --> Right click on it --> Select 'Uninstall'. Restart your PC and connect your external drive. Good Luck -------------------------------------------------- Found at. Hello, When i plug my WD passport portable hard drive into my computer, the hd will start up (the little LED will eliminate) and windows will make the 'usb connection' sound and down the bottom right of the screen i have the option to safely remove my passport 0740. So windows picks up my hd but it just wont show up in my computer, it works on my other computer just not this one. I have tried changing the drive letters and that doesnt seem to help.

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Using windows 7 ultimate I had te SAME problem as described! I finally solved it, it was some 'Virtual Drives' installed via CloneDVD that created that issue, hope it helps! (I uninstalled all virtual drives and CloneCD/DVD and restarted, now perfect!) Francis. Guys, use disk management to assign a drive path letter and viola.

Guys, use disk management to assign a drive path letter and viola. HI, same problem here and think that allocating a disk letter should be the solution but keep getting a dialogue box pop-up that says 'The operation failed to complete bec the Disk Mgt console view is not up to date. Refresh the view by using the refresh task. If the problem persists close the DM console, then restart DM or restart the computer'. Just that no amount of restarting DM or the pc as instructed,would help. The same dialogue box pops up every time.

I'm on Windows Vista and could see my portable hard disk in DM that just reflect these text '465.6GB'. The 'change disk letter' command does however work on the other C and D (recovery) drives, just not this one. I wonder if it's because I did not install SP2 for vista (had installation probs before) or else format the disk disk but is a hassle to transfer out all data first. Lastly, tried the 'uninstall grey-out entries' bit but I didn't see any grey-out bits.

Just the the picture icon and description text. Appreciate any further advice thxs. If it's visible in Disk Management and has no drive letter assigned to it, right-click on it and choose Change Driver Letter & Paths. Choose a letter. Click 'OK' and wait for the system to update itself. Thank you dear, that helped 100% and very simple.

I think we are getting this issue because of: maybe we tried to repartition the hard driver, or set the drive as primary drive, your external hard drive may work first time, but because it is primary and when you unplug it unsafely, it may lose the ability to be recognized again, so change the drive letter as it was before, and keep trying letter and it works. Guys, use disk management to assign a drive path letter and viola. All these solutions are good and well, but what benefit does it have when the problem isnt resolved when the next time u plugin the USB hdd and u need to go all over again to Hard drive management etc etc. Any concrete solution that 'really' fix this problem? Imo, i reckon it has something to to do with beiing a primary partion instead of an extended one, or to have 1 hidden one and 1 not hidden but for one reason they both stay hidden? ( This is my situation atm ). Thats what i think of myself, because with the same hdd i didnt had this problem earlier having 1 primary 'BOOT' ( not hidden ) partition and 1 extended 'DATA' ( not hidden ) partition.