Western digital passport essential harddrive 250 gig

Corruption or failing/failed drive. Mac supports
HFS+ (mac filesystem)
NFTS and FAT32 (windows filesystem)
exts2 (linux/unix)

It's dead. Time to buy a new hard drive...

Try downloading the device driver from western digital site for your respective OS. And try formatting it with the western digital inbuilt software, which works great.

This is a external hard drive and no need for you to install any software to a computer in order for it to work , this is a plug and play device you just need to wait for the computer to recognize it after you plug it to a USB port and once its recognize its ready to use.

The Western Digital My Passport line, besides the Essential Series, is originally formated for a Mac (in the HFS+ format) and as such cannot be read by Windows PCs. You can either get a program to read the External such as Macdrive, or format it to NTFS or FAT32; formats that are readable by Windows. I would recommend formatting it to NTFS, because you can only transfer up to 4 Gigabyte files to FAT32, while NTFS is nearly limitless.

i almost have the same problem, i bought the
Western Digital My Passport Essential 500GBfrom a week ago and i left the drve connected to the laptop and copying data from an old WD drive and after couple of hours i found an error appearing.......then i clecked okay and restarted the laptop and from then my
Western Digital My Passport Essential 500GBdoesn't appear in my computer drive list nor in the device manager.
i just cut my precious data from the other drive.

PLZ help

RMA it to Western Digitial

Hi

Is it showing the 300gig in the properties? if yes then try to copy with command mode,If again its given problem then u need to backup your data and format the drive, then try copying.I think it will work.

T.Boopathy

i have the same problem.
macbook doesn't see anymore my hdd western digital 2,5'' white 250 GB.
tried disk warrior, disk utility but nothing.
it's just seem disappeared, even if i hear it works inside (and the led light is on)
what can i do?