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#WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT FOR MAC EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE 1T HOW TO#
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#WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT FOR MAC EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE 1T FOR MAC#

The case on the My Passport for Mac is plastic versus aluminum on the My Passport Studio, which adds some layer of cost savings as well as makes this particular model lighter than the other offering. The new My Passport for Mac changes the design slightly from the previous model, with the most notable difference being the new color scheme which is designed to match the aluminum-bodied MacBook-line from Apple.

Height 0.60 Inches, Length 4.35 Inches, Width 3.23 Inches.

In this review we take a look at the more affordable 1TB My Passport for Mac, which offers a stylish all-plastic case and a USB 2.0 interface with the price listed at $129. Besides the new look, the latest models increase the capacities offered, upping the previous cap at 500GB to 750GB and 1TB.

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Western Digital completely redesigned and increased the capacity on both their My Passport for Mac and My Passport Studio portable hard drives. I would like to get a better understanding of this through this post also to understand what is wrong with mine.Western Digital completely redesigned and increased the capacity on both their My Passport for Mac and My Passport Studio portable hard drives.

I am not familiar with hard disks and their physical makeup as well as their software.

I also would like to kindly request everybody to keep the “you should’ve made a backup” to themselves as these are simply pointless comments not going to get us anywhere closer to understanding and solving the problem.

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Please inform me of all possible options of how to resolve these issues (theoretically and realistically), the files are highly valuable to me and would really want to get them back. ( I’m not sure if anything was supposed to happen) I clicked on first aid, it took about one second for it to complete and after I clicked continue nothing happened whatsoever. The option to mount the disk was a light grey (not possible to click on) I do not understand what mounting the disk means but this might be useful information to someone else. The disk WAS however visible in Disk Utility (while it wasn’t on the other macbook) The disk was not visible under devices in finder

#WESTERN DIGITAL MY PASSPORT FOR MAC EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE 1T PASSWORD#

The password requesting box did NOT pop up I then tried to plug it into a different macbook: The disk ALSO did NOT show up in disk utility The disk did not show up in finder under devices where it would normally show up neither on desktop. on the second attempt I typed in a very random password -> the box vibrates again on the second try.

on the second attempt I type in a similar password -> The box disappears and the hard disk keeps spinning and there is a light that is sometimes constant and sometimes blinking.

Then the box is still there and I have tried the following: I type in the password that is correct (there is no doubt about this the issue does not lie here) and the box that asks for the password vibrates back and forth in the motion that normally suggests on a macbook that it is Incorrect. The next day I plug it into my macbook and it asks for the password to unlock the disk. One day after I encrypted it I typed in the password it would unlock and no problem all files were there and available. I have a my passport for mac 1TB external hard drive, it has been working perfectly fine until a few days ago when I encrypted it with a password.