![]() After a few minutes, the MacBook Air (mid-2013, Mojave) suddenly said "disk not ejected properly." I turned the computer off, disconnected the drive, turned the computer on, and then reconnected the drive in the other port. I took the two back-up drives out to update my back-up and Time Machine. I haven't hooked any of them up for several months. The other My Book is formatted but empty. I had a bootable clone on one of the My Books and my Time Machine on the My Passport. Why are 2 of 3 external drives now useless? I have 3 WD external drives: 2 old 1TB My Books, and a 4TB My Passport Ultra for Mac that I got at the beginning of the year. Wondering if this is an issue with Monterey since the older coms are not running that OS and are working fine. Not sure what to do as the internet isnt helping solve the problem. ![]() It also still works on older devices.Ĥ) The other drive is brand new and nothing is working for that one to mount as well. ( error 49153."ģ) I have run diagnoistics on the older drive and everything came back fine. Neither are working on the new ones.Ģ) I have looked in disk utility and I can see the drives but I cannot mount them. No matter what I do I can not get ANY exernal drive to mount on any of my new Macbooks running Monterey.ġ) I have downloaded the WD discovery and utility which is the program that has helped my older macbook and imac mount the drives. I also bought a brand new external drive (WD My Passport- which is suppoed to be compatable with macs) as well as have my old external drive (WD My Passport) that has been working on my old mackbook 15in and my even older iMac for years. My Passport Drives not working on brand new comp I have recently bought a brand 2 new Macbook Pro 14in and its running Monterey. I'm only in town for another 12 hours and would really like to have this solved before I leave. I'm currently backing the 2008 up on the 500GB to see if I can see it on the iMac once it has something on it, but I'm asking here just in case that doesn't work. I tried plugging both into the 2008 and using the disk utility to check formatting - both are formatted OSX Journaled with GUID. It plugs in and is visible on all three computers - but it has nothing on it. Next I pulled out an older Passport 500GB. I also downloaded onto the iMac WD Discovery and NTFS for Mac - neither recognized the external hard drive. Just like the iMac - didn't show up anywhere (and yes, I tried clicking "show all drives" on the Disk Utility - it wasn't there and greyed out - it just doesn't exist at all.) I updated the Mojave software to the latest version. ![]() Next I tried plugging it into my MacBook Pro. I can open it, look around, even went to Disk Utility to First Aid - it reported the drive was in good shape. ![]() ![]() Next I tried plugging it back into the 2008 MacBook to see if the drive crashed. I tried all four USB ports as well as both USB 3 ports with a USB 3 to USB adapter. The LED light on the drive comes on and it is clearly spinning, but nothing on the iMac. Didn't appear on the desktop, finder window, or disk utility. I backed her 2008 MacBook up tonight with her Passport Time Machine, then I connected it to the new iMac and nothing. I have a 2016 MacBook Pro (High Sierra 10.13.6). Last year I bought her a WD Passport Ultra 1Tb to serve as her Time Machine. I finally talked my mom into replacing her 2008 MacBook (El Capitan 10.11.6) with a 2019 iMac (Mojave 10.14.5). ![]()
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