Wd 2Tb My Passport™ Hard Drive How To Fix The

It was working fine till now, but all of the sudden the hard disk is not getting recognised in my mac.

The LED in the hard disk is glowing, but the hard disk is not getting recognized.

I have tried to connect with other cables too, its not working.

I have been dealing with this since April and cannot figure out what to do.

Have you tried the trouble shooting test thing yet If you type in on the home page of this site macOS cannot find my drive it gives you a list of things to do.

When I went through this test back in April I was able to do everything on it, including use the Disk Utility to test for problems and also run a SMART test on the drive.

I dont remember what it said at that time, but it didnt look like it was a catastrophic failure.

Tonight, I decided to try all of this again and this is what happened this time, so any help you can get, might help me also.

When I checked under SYSTEM INFORMATION and clicked on USB, the external drive did show up there.

But, when I brought up DISK UTILITY it just continues to sit there on loading discs.

When I powered down and removed my passport, then turn back on and did the same thing, it immediately loaded my internal hard drive in the disk utilities section.

If that means that it could be completely unreadable Or where I need to go from here.

Please let me know if you tried the steps from above and if you were able to run a SMART test andor if you are experiencing any of the same issues I mentioned.

Also, you can try to connect the drive in any other macOS if possible.

Worked fine and then suddenly stopped and i had a screen message: MacOS cant repair the disk My Passport for Mac.

Wd 2Tb My Passport™ Hard Drive How To Fix The

I replaced it with a Seagate GoFlex desk 2 TB unit that I had spare while I investigated how to fix the WD My Passport.

Chances are high it will then be used as a Time Machine backup drive.

Then later after I erased everything and screen indicated that the external drive was empty I had the message reappear.

Wd 2Tb My Passport™ For Mac Hard Drive