My Passport Crashes Software To Get

If a WD My Passport external hard drive is not recognized by Mac OS, you had better make it clear if the problem is caused by external HDD error or Mac OS crash.

You can connect the WD My Passport to another computer to see if it can work normally.

My Passport Crashes Software To Get

Once you are sure that the WD My Passport is corrupted and becomes inaccessible, you had better stop performing any further operation to this external and then you can use data recovery software to get back lost data.

You just need to plug the external to a PC, and this data recovery software will deep scan the external even if it cannot work normally.

Now, you can follow the steps below to recover unreadable data.

Both of file systems are able to be recognized by Windows OS, but it might become unreadable when you plug an external hard drive that has FAT32 or NTFS file system to a Mac computer.

Therefore, if a WD my passport external hard drive is not recognized by Mac OS, but it is able to be compatible with Windows OS, you only need to format it to HFS file system which is able to be recognized by Mac OS.

However, sometimes, virus infection might corrupt the file system of WD my passport external hard drive and make it not show up when you connect the external to your computer.

In this situation, you can recover all inaccessible data at first and then you can run antivirus software to scan the external hard drive and finally format the external into proper format.

If WD my passport external HDD has unknown file system, you can use iCare Data Recovery to recover files from inaccessible drive and then try to format the WD my passport external hard drive to HFS file system.

If you want to use your external hard drive in Windows PC, you can connect it to a Windows PC and format RAW to NTFS file system.

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