Wd My Passport For Mac Won't Power Up

My Passport for Mac portable storage is ready to use out of the box so you can start transferring files, saving your memories and backing up right away. It comes with WD Discovery software for WD Security to help protect your data and is compatible with Apple Time Machine.

Hey guys, I got quite old WD external hard drive, it was working fine till last week. I tried to plug the power cable but its not turned on. Then i tried to just plug the power cord just half way through the external power hole there and put some pressure with my hand sideways and the external LED finally comes up but the power is still not on/ pc not recognize the HD. I believe the HD is still ok, and problem lies with the power plug, how should i fix this? Will tearing apart the external case and plug it like internal HD would work? Hey there, Melodyazzz. Sorry to hear about the problem you're having with your drive.

Now, the Erase dialogue window appears, here select the ‘Volume Format’ drop-down list and choose ‘MS-DOS (FAT)’ or ex-FAT File System.’ Note: ex-FAT is a better choice for formatting WD My Passport on Mac. • When the Disk Utility opens, choose the Western Digital hard drive icon from the sidebar. • On macOS Dock, select Finder. • Click ‘Erase’ on the Disk Utility file menu. When the Finder window opens, on the menu bar, select ‘Go’ and then ‘Utilities.’ After that, you will be able to see /Applications/Utilities folder in Finder. From the Utilities folder window, select ‘Disk Utility’ application.

There are people who would suggest taking the drive out of its enclosure, but this is not recommended. You might damage the drive in the process and if the HDD has firmware encryption, you won't be able to access your data without its original enclosure as it will be encrypted. I'd recommend that you find a local computer service shop and see if the guys there can be of any help. It might be a cable problem of some sort. Please let me know how it goes.

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