Western Digital Passport not mounting

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 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.
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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.
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I have a Mac mini recently (4day) and I installed Win7 ultimate 64 on one partition. So far all OK.
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Have a suggestion?
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Hi guys.
I have yet to find any resolution to a new problem I've been having with my Western Digital Hard Drive.
I've had it for about 6 months. Has run with no problems, until recently.
I have been running it on my Macbook Pro 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 and Playstation3 since I bought it. I went to load up my Macbook one day, and it would not recognize the hard drive. I have run the Disk Utility repair/verify options on it. It shows up on the list, when I select eject, nothing really happens. It just stays on the list. When I select the particular partition (FRANK) on the hard drive, and click Mount, I get an error message stating; 'Try running first aid on the disk and then retry mounting.' Which I have done, and this is what I recieve;
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I had a similar issue with an Iomega hard drive after connecting it to a samsung led tv
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afterwards it simply showed up again
the cause of this issue lies with connecting to DLNA-compliant devices (eg PS3/TV/xbox/...) and unsafely disconnecting them
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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
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for PPC macs:make sure in the options you set the Partition Map Scheme to Apple partition Map
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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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