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1. #How to install and partition wd easystore passport software
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3. #How to install and partition wd easystore passport windows

I come from another thread where I am having the same issue. Seems 2-3 more users had the same problem lately (within the last 2 days?) here on Tom's. Glad to know I'm not the only one, at least. I'm going to keep tab on this post, because I'm desperate for a solution, so if anyone finds anything - please inform us! So yeah, any solutions will be deeply appreciated, I really need to get this drive running again! Wasted so many hours and nerves on this with zero progress. Especially one that was hardly in use and well kept. I refuse to believe a simple failed write process will clean-wipe and ruin the entire drive. I'm also going crazy at this drive issue "at my wits end" is a perfect way to describe it. What was really weird is that WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic -detected it once for like 2 minutes, and then gone, it was random, and never happened since. Drive is basically unreachable by anything, and also freezes or slows anything that can potentially see or access it.

#How to install and partition wd easystore passport software

I really need to recover the data and get the drive up and running again! Please help.ĮDIT: I did manage to detect it for 5 minutes using WD software - I ran a Quick Test and it passed without issues- then it disappeared.Ĭlick to expand.Glad to know I'm not the only one, at least. This external HD was used maybe 5 times and was sitting in storage for years. Tried chkdsk /f /r and SFC - but both fail to even start - again STUCK.Nothing happens. Tried Western Digital Data Lifeguard and it doesn't show up the HD up in the list, only on the lower one. Tried 2 different cables, and 2 computers. If I click on it it will freeze up, not respond (load forever) and might say "drive is inaccessible" after a long time. If I open file explorer (this computer) - I see the drive as "local drive e:" - not as "my Passport" (which was its original name). If I open Disk Management it will open a frozen white window and will be stuck forever, not responding and slowing the PC. The white light on the drive is blinking- but nothing happens.Įven ejecting the drive via the taskbar gets forzen.

#How to install and partition wd easystore passport Pc

It is stuck, slowing down the PC and file explorer - and undetectable. Now I can't access my external HD at all. The the desktop went black, was frozen for a while, and finally the whole process crashes back to desktop. I was going to use to to transfer around 100 GB of video data (gameplay capture 4K 60fps 55mbps) - after around 30% it said "can't open file - can't read" or something like that. It had some important videos, images and content.

#How to install and partition wd easystore passport windows

In Windows 8, you can choose the "This PC" tile from the start screen.In Windows 7, this can be done by clicking the start button and choosing "Computer" from the right panel of the menu.Open " Computer" (there are multiple ways this can be done).Connect the external drive to the computer.If you have already saved files to the drive that you want to keep then don’t format the drive. WARNING: All data on the external hard drive will be erased by this procedure. NTFS partitions have a file size limit only limited by the partition size. To get around this problem or prevent it from being a problem later you could format the drive as an NTFS partition. You could save the file to an NTFS partition or a DVD. When trying to copy files to the drive you may get prompted to do a disk clean up but this will not resolve the problem.

This may be a problem for larger files, such as video files, disk images, or large Outlook PST files. The maximum file size on a FAT32 partition is 4gb. A new Western Digital external drive is configured by default out of the box as a FAT32 partition.