Wondering if this is an issue with Monterey since the older coms are not running that OS and are working fine. Open the WD Stealth User Manual or the WD Express User Manual if you have access to them.

Not sure what to do as the internet isnt helping solve the problem. To factory reset your WD Passport for Mac: 1. Because, during the reformatting process any data that is on the hard disk drive. It also still works on older devices.Ĥ) The other drive is brand new and nothing is working for that one to mount as well. First you should make a backup of all the data on your Western Digital HDD. ( error 49153.'ģ) I have run diagnoistics on the older drive and everything came back fine. Here’s how to format WD My Passport for Mac computer, MacBook, or iMac: Step 1: Connect WD My Passport drive to your Mac. Neither are working on the new ones.Ģ) I have looked in disk utility and I can see the drives but I cannot mount them. No matter what I do I can not get ANY exernal drive to mount on any of my new Macbooks running Monterey.ġ) I have downloaded the WD discovery and utility which is the program that has helped my older macbook and imac mount the drives.

And that means you’ll have to reformat the drive before you can transfer your files to it. But can’t write to an NTFS formatted external drive. I also bought a brand new external drive (WD My Passport- which is suppoed to be compatable with macs) as well as have my old external drive (WD My Passport) that has been working on my old mackbook 15in and my even older iMac for years. Why can’t I copy files from Mac to WD Passport That’s a file system format a Windows PC can write to. My Passport Drives not working on brand new comp I have recently bought a brand 2 new Macbook Pro 14in and its running Monterey.

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