If not, download, and install iBoysoft Data Recovery on your Mac and then check if your WD My Passport is detected by iBoysoft Data Recovery. Go to Desktop or Finder and check if your WD My Passport is showing up.

Go to the Sidebar tab, and tick 'External disks' under 'Locations' to show your WD My Passport for Mac in Finder.Ĥ. Tick the 'External disks' option to show the WD My Passport for Mac on the desktop.ģ. Go to Finder > Preferences > General tab.Ģ.

Now, follow the guide below to set Finder Preferences and make the WD My Passport for Mac show up in Finder or on the desktop.ġ. In other words, you didn't allow the connected external hard drives to show up in the Finder or on the desktop. If your WD My Passport is not showing up in Finder and desktop, it's possible that the configuration of the Finder Preferences prevents your WD My Passport drive from showing up. If the WD My Passport for Mac still doesn't show up or work on Mac after the basic checks, go ahead to try out the solutions as below to make it show up on Mac. Connect the WD My Passport to another Mac or Windows PC, which will find out if it is the incompatible file system of the drive that makes this WD My Passport undetectable. Reboot your Mac computer to see if your WD My Passport drive is not showing up in Disk Utility/Finder or not.Ĥ. Check whether the USB cable and USB port are not working by connecting other hard drives to this USB port or cable and see if that makes a difference.ģ. Try quickly plug or slowly plug, which sometimes just works for no reason.Ģ. Safely remove the WD My Passport and reconnect it to the USB port. Usually, malfunctioned USB port or Mac computer, a broken USB cable, and some hardware problems could make WD My Passport not show up.īefore going further troubleshooting, doing the following basic checks is very necessary.ġ.

Method 6: Repair your WD hard drive in a local shop.

Method 5: Recover data and erase the drive.

Method 4: Check & repair the drive in Disk Utility.Method 3: Install the latest WD drive unlock application.

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