I have a old 250GB HD that I’m trying to backup; however, each time I insert my new Elite passport, and try to drag and drop files it won’t allow me. My drive even states “No writable WD SmartWare partition found.” I updated my drive’s firmware, is that the problem?
It’s probably the Smartware on your new drive.
Joe
I assume you are using a brand new My Passport drive on a Mac computer.
That My Passport drive was formatted in NTFS file system,
Mac can only read, but can not write to it.
You may need to format your new My Passport drive
to either MS-DOS FAT(windows+Mac) or HFS+J(Mac) then you will be able to write to it.
Note: Formatting drive will erase all data, make sure to back up your data first.