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Western Digital My Passport Studio: My Passport WD External HD fails to mount to desktop

Thu, 07 Sep 2017 13:41:01 -0700

My Mac formatted Western Digital My Passport External HD crapped out and doesn't start.. anyone know how to resuscitate these things? Help! Any data recovery solutions out there?

Doesn't mount to desktop. It got knocked out of th USB cable a couple times while it was plugged into the MacBook and running. I've tried other USB cables. Th hardrive looks to be fused/soldered to a mini motherboard.

Here's a couple pics:

⟐ Answered September 07, 2017 at 13:41 MST

Western Digital My Passport Studio: Data Recovery Issues after restore

Sat, 12 Sep 2020 04:43:22 -0700

Hello everyone.

I have a western digital which I had stored videos from my macbook pro using the software final cut pro.

About a week back the hard drive crashed and I took the external hard drive and attached it to a PC running windows 7 and ran a recovery program called EASEUS recovery. I was successful recovering the the videos , but I can't play the videos neither on a mac or pc. Keep getting an error that the file is invalid. Is there a special software or a particular way to run recovery which would enable me to recover the videos properly.

All help is appreciated

⟐ Answer deleted September 12, 2020 at 4:43 MST

Western Digital My Passport Studio: How do I Change battery?

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 04:25:29 -0700

How do I Change battery on my WD My Password Studio harddisk?

⟐ Answered July 17, 2025 at 4:25 MST

Western Digital My Passport Studio: slow data transfer speed

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 04:27:02 -0700

I have a old my passport studio was a mac one

It sort of stopped working a while back but now it seems to work but connection is very slow

the firewire800 port used to be quick but now is extremely slow

did the diagnostic test and both failed

⟐ Answered April 20, 2020 at 4:27 MST

Western Digital My Passport Studio: How do I replace the enclosure

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 20:03:56 -0700

I have a studio passbook and the hard disk is spinning, but it appears my enclosure needs to be replaced. How do I do this?

⟐ Answer accepted November 09, 2017 at 20:03 MST

Western Digital My Passport Studio: Disk stop working after 1 min

Mon, 31 Oct 2016 21:12:32 -0700

disk stops working after a while. It is mounted and after 1 min, it sounds and stops working. the system and the disk utility sees it, but can not do anything with it, not even unmount.

I've tried tech tools and disk utility but they can accomplish the tasks because the disk cannot be unmounted and stop working after 1 min.

help please !!

what can i do? i ve called some companies for data recovery but they are Really expensive........ its like i can buy 7 new disks ......

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⟐ Commented October 31, 2016 at 21:12 MST

Western Digital My Passport Studio: Why doesn't "back up now" appear in the list anymore?

Wed, 10 Feb 2016 12:30:26 -0700

I have been successfully using Western Digital My Passport Studio to back up my MacBook Pro for some time now. Once it mounts to the desktop, I right click and then select "Back Up Now" from the list of actions. Today when I connected it and it mounted, "Back Up Now" no longer appears in the list and I can't figure out anyway to make it start. It didn't start automatically after waiting, it didn't help anything to unmount it and restart the computer. Any suggestions why this would happen or another way to begin the back up?

⟐ Commented February 10, 2016 at 12:30 MST