Western Digital Passport 320 GB on macbook

Does anyone have any experience in using a Western Digital Passport _320 GB_ model as an external HD with an intel macbook?
Do you power it with 1 or both usb ports?
Had any problems with it?
Would you recommend?
Thanks, .B.

I have the 160 GB model, and it works fine. I only use 1 port to plug it in. I have two partitions- one for data, and one for Time Machine.
Steve

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Has anyone with the 15" 2.2ghz 120Gb hd MacBook Pro able to connect this Western Digital Passport 250 GB external drive to only 1 USB port and has it working?
I intend to buy both of these hardwares, but was told that I may need to get the extra Y-cable that can connect to 2 USB ports of the MacBook Pro since only 1 USB port may not have enough power to work the WD external drive? The WD drive comes with only 1 "standard" USB cable.
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I've got the 120GB passport and it's worked when I plugged it into the right-side port. But I prefer my connections on the left (to keep room for my mouse) so I got a powered Kensington Dome hub that I run thru my left USB port and have plugged the HD into the hub and that also works.

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I have a western digital passport that I have used a couple of times. Today I was transferring my music and it said there were corrupted files in my music, and all of a sudden the drive will not be recognized anymore. I don't know what to do? I have been reading everything online. I have tried checking disk utility and it does not appear. Tried checking the hard drive on another computer and it didn't pop up. Please all suggestions are helpful.

The Western Digital Passport drives have a reputation for being power hogs. Your Macbook USB port might not be providing enough power to run the drive. This especially might be the case if you are running off of the battery only. Your PC ports might be giving slightly more power that is enough to run the drive.
I have a portable Simpletech drive (120Gb) that actually comes with a Y cable that plugs into two USB ports on my Macbook. This provides enough power to run the drive without needing a separate power adapter. The Western Digitals typically don't come with this Y cable, but one is offered. You can buy one off their website for about $20 that should allow you to use the drive with your Laptop. It's lame that everyone else provides such a cable for free while WD charges, but that's the way it is.
good luck with getting it to work.

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I recently got a Western Digital Passport external hard drive in order to put my itunes music onto it, so it would not take up so much space on my macbook. I found it relatively easy to move all my files the first time, but then as soon as I downloaded something from the itunes store, it put it onto my computer. Since the artist was the same as some music I already had, it did not recognize that I did not already have it, so I could not simply move the new music onto the Passport.
I was wondering if there was some kind of sync feature for the Passport to macs, because I know there is for windows. All I want is for my music to continually go to my Passport, and not take up space on my laptop.
Thanks!

If the WD drive isn't plugged in, iTunes doesn't know where your library is, and hence can't properly add the new music files where they should go. The passport MUST be plugged in to the mac before you start iTunes or a new library will be created and your new music files will go in to THAT library.
The simple way to correct this is to take the files you added that did not go where you wanted them and put them on your desktop from the folder they are residing in (if you're not sure where they are, just click 'Get Info' on the tracks in iTunes and it will tell you where the real files are). From there, close iTunes and plug in your WD drive.
Reopen iTunes now and make sure in your preferences that the music folder on the WD drive is selected as your music library location. Then make sure 'Copy files to iTunes Music Folder' is checked. Now drag your music files on your desktop in to the iTunes window. iTunes will then copy those files over to the WD drive music folder and add them to the iTunes database.

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Hi,
I have a Mac mini recently (4day) and I installed Win7 ultimate 64 on one partition. So far all OK.
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Win7 connection driver instaled OK.
I see the HD in the "Printer and device" menu.
With Win7 Explorer i cant find it.
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Hello, what Format is the external drive?
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T41 not recognised USB Western Digital Passport 2.5" Ext HDD

My T41 used to worked fine with my WD 2.5" ext HDD. For the past 3 months, do not know what happen every time i plug my ext HDD it just not recognised. When i plug this ext HDD to other computers, it just work absolutely fine.
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I had same issue with same type of pc and USB Western Digital Passport. Problems was on laptop usb ports that had gone broken. Laptop didnt have warraty anymore so i had to connect USB-DISK to docking stations usb port that is still working.
Other solution is to buy usb2 PCMCIA adapter.
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Hi,
I have a Western Digital 320gb External Hard Drive and I am able to move 7gb files in 6 minutes with no lag. Maybe it is best for you to return or exchange it. There is no stocking fees for these sort of items at most retail stores.
Hope this helps in your decision making.
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I think I'd disconnect the external drive and do this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Tiger Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
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Well i'm happy its working on my machine Just want to spread the word

Actually you can Boot from a USB external drive!
here are the steps:
1. Partition the drive Correctly
for intel macs: make sure in the options you set the Partition Map Scheme to GUID Mode
for PPC macs:make sure in the options you set the Partition Map Scheme to Apple partition Map
Go to: Finder > Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility > select drive > partition > options
2. Create a clone of your HD using Carbon copy cloner or super duper or something similar
3. Reboot your mac and hold down the option key when the system is booting back up. This will let you choose your boot drive on startup. Choose your USB drive and continue. You’ll find that the system boots a lot slower, but that is expected of course. With any luck, your backup is an exact replica of your system.

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I'm looking to swap my internal 60GB hard drive with my 160GB WD Passport. Because my external is a 2.5" drive I would imagine this could be possible but I'm hessitant to try it and possibly mess up my only computer and my external. I'd also appreciate any help on the install side that you guys can offer. Below is the Passport I have. Thanks in advance!
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3751568&csid=ITD&body=MAI...

Welcome to the forum!
I doubt that this is possible, you need a drive with SATA interface for your T60.
To each his/hers own, but with today's prices of SATA drives, why even bother...
Take a look at this:
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10008232
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Cheers,
George
In daily use: R60F, R500F, T61, T410
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So i have had this WD external hard drive for maybe 2 years now, and its been working fine, but as soon as i plugged it into a PC it didnt work, which i though was weird, but as soon as i plugged it back into my mac, my mac kept saying that it cant recognize the disk, i didnt do anythign besides plug it into a windows and now it wont work, can anyone help?

WD drives tend to be junk so I am not particularly surprised. If it has both USB and FireWire have you tried it on the other bus? If you plug it in and look at the System Profiler does it at least see the drive?

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The electronics in the Western Digital external backup drives aren't known to be very reliable. You might try to see if it is readable on another system, and if not, then, if under warranty, contact Western Digital, or if not, remove the hard drive and put it into another external case.
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"Time Machine" Backup Using Western Digital 160 GB External Hard Drive

I'm trying to use "Time Machine" to backup to a Western Digital Passport 160GB USB 2 external hard drive. The message that I continuously get after starting "Time Machine" is "Preparing...." and the backup process never begins. I've ejected the drive and plugged it back in. The drive is good, as I've been able to drag and drop files on the external drive icon, which is on my desktop. Has anyone else had a problem using a WD USB 2 external hard drive in conjunction with "Time Machine?" Thanks in advance for any insight into this problem!

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