You also must choose a drive letter, but the default should be fine (F in my case). If you choose none then the drive will be named “new volume”. Choose “New Simple Volume” - wording may vary based on Windows version. During this setup process you will be prompted to enter a volume name - I simply named it “WD My Passport”. Move to the lower pane and right-click on the WD.
Likely you will find it listed as “Disk 1”.
Then plug it back in and again and pay attention to see which drive appears (it should be the same). Now, locate the WD My Passport drive - the simplest way is to unplug the drive while watching the console. It turns out you will need to open Explorer and right-click on Computer (“This PC” if you are running Windows 8.1) and choose “Manage”.
#PASSPORT EDGE FOR MAC PC#
A PC reboot also produced all of these same results. A trip to device manager showed the drive, no problem. Normal trouble-shooting resulted in the same thing - I unplugged and re-plugged, switched ports and the like, all to no avail.
#PASSPORT EDGE FOR MAC SOFTWARE#
That pre-installed software blocks Windows access.Īs I plugged in the drive, I heard the familiar USB connection chime, but a trip to Explorer showed no extra drive. I am sure the Apple software is great, but I purchased with for Windows, and there is a process that needs to be carried out to make that work. In addition to the sleek design, the drive also is USB 3.0 (backward compatible of course) and comes with pre-installed software to work with Apple Time Machine. When I say “little” I mean that quite literally, as the dimensions are 4.4 x 3.4 x 0.4 inches and 4.6 ounces. With 500 GB of storage, the little USB drive packs plenty of extra space into its enclosure. No problem since, after all, a hard drive is a hard drive, right? There is a version that is not labeled this way, and is generally the same price, but at the moment of my purchase the Mac one was cheaper. The stipulation was that I was buying a drive that specifically said “for Mac”. The one I settled on, mainly because of a price deal, was the WD My Passport Edge.
#PASSPORT EDGE FOR MAC PORTABLE#
If you are looking for a small, portable hard drive for your laptop then there are several choices on the market and hard drive prices continue to reach new lows.
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