Best Answer: After you plug it in and the Mac recognizes it open up Disk Utility, located under Applications/Utilities on your hard drive. Click on it's icon and go to Erase. Be sure to indicate Mac OS Extended (Journaled). It will take a while, but that will set your drive up to be used on the Mac. Aug 30, 2018 - Western Digital's Passport external drive for Mac isn't eternally bound to. Formatting your drive will erase all its data, so be sure to back it up.

• 371 Answers SOURCE: I wish I had the words of comfort that you will need with this tale of woe I must tell you. You see, its a matter of organization. Though your data is SOMEWHERE on the disk, without proper ejection, the disk cannot find them as they had been assigned data space. It is very much like the requirement that a computer be properly shut down or face similar problems with its internal disks becoming corrupted. Your files were not actually cleared, they were corrupted, but perhaps the volume can be repaired. Go into your applications folder, (as you should have done while installing the disk in the first place) and find a folder entitled 'Utilities' and within that folder and icon entitled 'Disk Utility' and click on it.

And a dialogue window will open up showing all disks currently installed, including your external disk which you should select and you will notice tabs entitled 'First Aid' 'Erase' 'RAID' and 'Restore' Follow the instructions found there and the very best of luck to you. Posted on Apr 25, 2009. • 1 Answer SOURCE: I had the same problem with my passport-mac connection. When i first purchased the passport and plugged it in, I had no problems, the icon came right up on my desktop. Then i backed up my entire computer which is only about 25-30 GB.

After that, when I plugged the passport in, it didn't seem to be recognized but the light came on and the drive made noise. I searched for answers, and even considered downloading some of the stuff people recommended. But then I realized, if I let it sit, after about 20 minutes, the icon popped up on my desktop. I am not a computer person, but to me, it seems that because there is a decent amount of information on my passport (although no even close to full) my computer needed som. Storm radar app for mac.