people that assume a non-working HD is a "bad" HD when in fact the HD is just 100% fine, its just that miserable little circuit card. If a HD is over 3 months old (most all "bad" HD fail usually before the 3 month mark) and LESS THAN 5 years old and treated very well. You have 2 options, offload all data onto another HD that will work on that one Mac, OR crack open the HD case and remove the HD itself and put into another enclosure ($10-15$ ebay).Ī SATA card is about the size of a stick of gum, its plugged into the HD with a female USB connection on the other side, it unplugs in 1/2 a second from the HD once you get into the HD casing.
#Wd passport for mac target mac
This is why some of us HD 'collectors' call this the "haunted HD syndrome" 😐, where a HD acts utterly illogical and contrary to common sense diagnostics (works fine on ONE Mac but not another)
#Wd passport for mac target for mac
It makes very little logical sense to most (for obvious reasons), but that that one Mac is no longer able to communicate with said HD due to the SATA card. Equipped with USB-C technology, the 4TB WD My Passport Ultra for Mac USB-C Portable Hard Drive offers an easy way to expand your storage with a modern metal. Capacity 2TB USB 3.2 Gen 1 interface Durability and long-term reliability Compatible with USB-C and USB-A SuperSpeed USB cable The Western Digital My Passport 2TB Portable Hard Drive for MAC works straight out of the box with a Mac device for a no-fuss performance.
Highlight ' Disk Utility ', then double-click it. The Western Digital My Passport 2TB Portable Hard Drive for MAC perfectly complements your on-the-go lifestyle. You can find disk utility by clicking on the spotlight search button, then type 'Disk Utility'. The My Passport for Mac drive includes USB-C and USB-A cables, so you can save tomorrows content with the Mac computers of both today and yesterday. The case being, your other Macs will read/ write to this HD fine, but this one Mac wont. Make sure you tick the checkboxes 'Hard Disks' and 'External Disks.' Your WD My Mac Passport drive should now be running on your screen. (and you swapped out HD USB cables too on the "bad" HD?).Īfter swapping cables between the "2 identical WD USB HD", you have (nearly 100% certainty) a bad SATA card as I stated much earlier.
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