Well, This is going to sound crazy but as I was writing this post, the drive seemed to just have randomly mounted and the icon apppeared on my desktop. I formatted the drive to exfat myself a while ago before making a backup of my previous files sucessfully. Keep in mind that this also goes on to say the drive comes preformatted in FAT32 yada yada. It comes up in disk utility as a WD My Passport etc but it won't mount.
#Wd passport for mac won't mount on pc install
Double click the WD Button Manager package inside the Mac disk image to install the Button Manager and Firewire Button driver. Double click the mac folder, then double click the WD Button Manager software disk image that contains the installer.ĥ. The drive mounts to the desktop, double click the MyBook drive iconĤ. Connect the drives power cord and firewire or USB cable as shown (i.e, just plug one or the other in).ģ. The OEM users manual is pretty sparse - for the Mac it just says:Ģ. The drive still worked without it but it would never shut off (without unplugging it), and that big blue circle was pretty bright. I'd suggest the button manager - if it's a MyBook Premium - that's all I needed on the WinXP side. Spindown or stop utility - not sure what that is. My experience on the windows side was that the drive was pretty flaky without the button manager (and if FW 400 was used - it was less flaky with the driver).
#Wd passport for mac won't mount on pc serial number
They have changed things around - used to have to enter a serial number and it would download an archive of what was on the early MyBook drives - I'd just reformat the drive to NTFS, install the button manager and it worked. I have never had the button indicate the capacity though - so maybe that driver has to go on the drive? I have installed the only Mac driver in the above list - the Button manager. I download that and put it on the root of the drive? The only problem I can see is that the file is a PC one and my WD has been reformatted to OSX for time machine. I'm assuming the software you are referring to is the 'My Book Premium Edition Software (Including WD Backup)'.
+My Book Premium Edition Software (Including WD Backup)+
+WD My Book/Passport Studio FireWire driver (SAM)+ +WD My Book Pro, Pro II, Premium, and Premium II FireWire driver+ +External USB/FireWire Fat32 Formatting Utility+ +My Book Essential/Premium Edition Windows 98SE driver+ Sorry to bug you again with a question.įrom their website I have the following options:
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