I Cant Use My External Hard Drive For Windows And Mac And Now I Cant Use Mac

WD external drive is not seen by Windows or Mac and data on the drive is inaccessible. Do not use a USB or FireWire Hub. To make sure that there won't be any ongoing issues by using our Windows Data Lifeguard Diagnostics. A Mac WD external hard drive is not powering on or is not recognized on a Mac system. Connect the external hard drive to your Mac and copy the important data to the Mac PC. Now connect the external hard drive to Windows 8 computer and format it in FAT32 file system. Now you would be able to use the external hard disk on both the computers. Also refer to this link: Drives, partitions, formatting w/Mac's + PC's.

In Wn10, MYbook shows up in devices, but not in file manager. Disk management shows it as ‘unknown’, unallocated, not initialized. I’ve been using it for a while for my graphics files.

I have thousands of photos and art files. I cannot afford to reformat or do anything that loses the files. I loaded the SES file, but when I click on it, I don’t see anything happening. WD’s drive diagnostic doesn’t ‘see’ the drive. In disk management, a popup gives me the option of initializing using MBR or GPT. Top rated macaroni and cheese recipe.

I have unplugged, replugged, moved from USB 3 to USB2, still nothihg. So here is the answer for everyone. I had the same issue as all of you. The drive would show up in Device Manager as well as Computer Management but not in My Computer. It would show up as “Drive 0” in Computer Management. Now because the computer does not know what it is really, the “Right Click” and format is not an option.

However if you right click on it in Computer management and select 'Create Simple Volume' I believe is the option it will walk you through a setup to assign a drive letter, an option to format or not format and when it is done you will see your drive and be able to use it in “Computer”. Hope this helps those that are not getting an answer from the company. I had My Book connected to a desktop running Windows Vista.

It worked fine for backing up my files. The old desktop recently died. I need to restore my files to a laptop running Windows 10. I can see the files in File Manager when I connect via USB on my Windows 10 laptop, However,I want to use the Restore Feature that I bought and paid Western Digital for. The whole point of me paying my hard earned money to Western Digital for this device was to be able to rescue my files when needed. Now this cannot be done because operating systems changedlike this is the first time that’s ever happened. Geez I cannot do the restores manually (at least not in this lifetime) because the files are of course under many separate backup folders that you have to drill down to to get to the photos and documents I want to restore.

So I need a Windows 10 driver for the My DriveI guess that’s what I need. So I am saying to Western Digital, get with it please and find a way for me to restore my hundreds of files in a quick, seamless manner. Check printing software for mac. Resurrecting my old Windows Vista desktop is not an option. It’s forever dead.