My macbook pro can't see wd passport 1T

Hay!
Can anyone help me please, because I'm desperate.
I have for few months a westeren digital passport 1 T. It works fine till yesterday. I plug in my macbook and it didn't show in finder. Then I check in "disk utility" and after verify disk it appear in "disk utility" and I have think it will be ok. In that finder window "disk utility" I open my wd passport, but today when I plug it in my macbook - again it didn't recognize it. I look in "disk utility" but with no result.
I looked at other topics but I didn't find with anyone the same problem.
So I asked you again and pleas help me to solve this problem.
Thank you
Edi

If the port to which you are connecting the drive (is it a USB port?) works OK when you connect something else to it, such as a flash drive or a printer, but the external drive does not appear in Disk Utility when connected, then the drive has failed. Is it still under WD's factory warranty? If so, return it and hope its replacement will last longer, though I have my doubts about that. If your drive is out of warranty, read on.
Western Digital's external drive enclosures and the bridge chipsets in them are pure junk, and the failure may very well be in the bridge chipset rather than the drive itself. If you extract the drive from its enclosure and mount it in a good one from a reliable vendor or connect it directly to your Mac with an adapter like the one below, it may be detected by Disk Utility. It may even work perfectly again. If it doesn't, well, live and learn: don't buy any more WD external drives.
Bare-drive USB adapter:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/U2NV2SPATA/

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