Can't see My Passport in Windows 7

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So I’ve been going through the forum and I see that this is a surprisingly common problem. I just bought a new computer with Windows 7 Pro 64 and I tried running My Passport 750gb and it detected it, it made the sound, it downloaded the drivers successfully and I was able to see it through Control Panel, however, it does not appear under Computer and although it appears under Drive Management it does not have a letter assigned to it and thus I cannot navigate it.

Now I see that the answer commonly given to this problem is a reformat and I guess I will have to do that but I do have one question I’d like to ask before: I was able to view and navigate this drive previously on a Macbook Pro with Windows 7 Ultimate, why wouldn’t I be able to do the same on my new pc?

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If the drive was formatted on a Mac it will not be visable in Windows. Something like HFS Explorer http://www.catacombae.org/hfsx.html  might work to get data off it. I don’t know much about Macs but it sounds like  you had Windows 7 was running in a virtual environment on the Mac.  If you are not going to use it on a Mac anymore simply reformat it NTFS for Windows.

Joe

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Hi! See, that’s the thing, I had installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my mac as a full OS, not virtual. 

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http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3868 this sould help you :wink: It worked for me, i had the same problem as you and i use windows 7. 
Did you formate your hard disk to your tv?