Wd My passport won't show up on macbook

I recently got a new external hard drive for school, it is a 1tb My passport WD. It seems to work fine I just can't find it any where on my macbook. I have checked disk utility and there is nothing there, I have even plugged it into a windows os and it worked fine, I could access it and everything. But whenever I plug it back into any mac/macbook it won't show up. I would rather not go through the trouble af sending it back and looking for a new one, please help.

chelsfrommnl wrote:
tried it on with other computers and change cables! and still, it wouldn't show!
What other computers have you tried it on? Mac's or PC's?
Take the WD HDD out of it's enclosure and insert it in another one (non WD). Connect it to your MBP. What is the result?
Ciao.

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