I’m using my friend’s My Passport drive (“for Mac” WBBABW0010BSL). It works fine on her Mac (with a recent OS, I’m not sure exactly which).
On my Windows 7 laptop (Pro/64-bit/SP1 with all updates) it initially showed an error where 2 out of 3 drivers were found automatically. I easily found the third driver online and installed the 64-bit version. Everything seemed to complete successfully. I even restarted the laptop for good measure.
Now, when I plug in the My Passport:
- my “hardware attatched” alert plays
- I can find “My Passport 071A” in the Devices & Printers Control panel (it doesn’t indicate any problems)
- I can find “WD SES Device” under “WD drive management devices” in the Device Manager (it doesn’t indicate any problems)
- I can find “WD My Passport 071A USB Device” under “Disk Drives” in the Device manager in the Device Manager (it doesn’t indicate any problems)
- I can find “Disk 1” in the Disk Management tool. This pops up an error window as soon as I open it saying that h I must initialize the disk before Logical Disk Manger can access it. It asks me to choose a partition style.
- I CANNOT find the drive in the My Computer “folder” in Windows Explorer
I assume that the Disk Manager wants to wipe all the data off the drive, so I haven’t done that. Does this sound like a drive that has been formatted for Macs only? Is there any way for me to access the files? Maybe something like Knoppix?
