wd my passport for mac not working with el capitan

Wd My Passport Not Working With El Capitan Mac Or PC

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Today, I was doing a time machine backup, and the backup failed.

Ok, its normal since the drive started updating the firmware.

But after the firmware update failed (updater got stuck), the drive now spins, light on, but the MBP wont see it, and neither will the firmware updater.

Never had that specific problem myself though, so cant say for sure.

Wd My Passport Not Working With El Capitan Mac Or PC

Have you tried hooking it up to someone elses Mac or PC to see if its recognised on theirs If its still not recognised, youre probably best just going through the warranty replacereturn channels.

But is there no solution to this Tried hooking the drive to my old PC and it didnt work.

Ill wait for my sister to get home so I can try it on her MBP.

Only thing is I havent been able to find a way to reformat the drive without it being mounted.

I tried the firmware updated, but it just kept saying there was no USB WD drive available, despite the fact the drive was connected to the PC, and spinning normally.

Wont show up on Disk utility, desktop, system profiler, nothing.

After trying to connect the drive to 4 different PCs, the drive was detected in Windows Vista Device Manager, and by the WD firmware updater tool.

I was able to update the firmware and now the drive is working normally.

I dont have a PC to check it with, BUT I then noticed that it seemed like the drive was spinning and then skipping or something, then started spinning fast again- fraction of a second skip- so I held it and tried to feel for the skipping but it had stopped.

Then, while still holding it (at about a 45 degree angle horizontally (like midway through flipping a page)) I decided to check Finder and it was mounted and accessible.

I ejected it, plugged it into my iMac (which it also didnt work on earlier) and it was accessible right away, even laying flat on my desk like normal.

Weird. I dont know how stable it is now so Im backing everything up again (it currently IS a backup).

Just FYI in case the other solution doesnt pan out for someone, or in case they dont need to do all of that.

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Wd My Passport For Mac Not Working With El Capitan