Drivers For Wd Passport Portable Hard Drive

1. Wd Drive Utilities Not Detecting Drive

Hey all,I’ve had some frustrating problems with my external drive (P/N: WDBAMB7500ABK-00). Last night it worked perfectly, but today it isn’t even showing up in disk management. It’s taken a fall or two to the soft carpet floor from a height of about 16 inches, but I don’t think this should be a problem. When I plug the drive in, the light comes on, and it beeps. It beeps five times, making a lower tone for about one second and a higher for about half a second, with a pause of about 1 second between each pair of beeps.

Is this an error code?I’ve tried plugging it into another computer, but it doesn’t show up there either (it should be noted that said computer has very finicky USB ports). I’m using the cable that was included with the drive.Should I be able to recover data from my drive? I have my music stored on it along with some photos and videos, and I’d really like to get these off.Thanks for any help,Trey.

It’s taken a fall or two to the soft carpet floor from a height of about 16 inches, but I don’t think this should be a problem.I’m sorry, but those 16 inches are more than enough to damage a drive beyond repair. And more than once, it’s a miracle it lasted this long.

Remember, a drive has a platter(s) spinning at more than 5,000 rpms. If that head hits the platter, it can take chunks out of it destroying your data permanently. An internal hard drive that’s been dropped a mere half an inch can be seriously damaged.Once a drive is running, you shouldn’t even move it because of the wear stress that it produces on the spindle motor. Spinning drives in both laptops and pcs that are moved around a lot can expect to have much higher and quicker failure rates. My passport just started to do this as well and I have only used it like 4 times.

I agree that is absolutely ridiculous that this portable harddrive can’t sustain a fall to a carpet. Why would I purchase a portable one then? Does wd think that I am going to transport this around in a huge padded case? Besides, this isn’t the first time this has happened to an external harddrive I’ve had from WD. My other one was non-portable and sat on my desk and just stopped working one day. If you look all over the internet, it appears to be a very common problem. Time to switch to Seagate.

I am not able to access my picture and data files that have been stores on my external hard drive either. Unfortunately, this is where I backed up all of my pictures and data. For many things on this hard drive I have no other copies.I recently took my external hard drive to Best Buy - Geek Squad to see if the files could be recovered without going thru a great expense. The technician removed the drive from it’s case to see if he could assess the file directly but it only said raw drive. The technician has told us that my external hard drive has lost its partition table so now no computer can read from it. It needs software to rebuild table to then read the hard drive. Do you think this program would be able to rescue my data??Other things I have tried:.connecting to different computers.connected external hard drive to computer using a new USB cable.

Hello everyone i am going through the same nightmare and WD just left its customers to their own devices.we invested a fortune in their company by buying their products so why couldn’t they find an answer once for all?i spent sleepless nights trying to sort this out and recover all my works and private photos and videos.why should i pay for data recovery service when i bought a produc that was working perfectly and then decide to stop working?I WILL APPRECIATE IF SOMEONE that has managed to sort it out can give us a reply.thanks.

Trusted and loved portable storage.The My Passport portable drive is trusted to store the massive amounts of photos, videos and music you love.Available in an array of vibrant, fun colors, the sleek style fits comfortably in the palm of your hand, so you caneasily take your treasured content everywhere you go.Auto BackupAutomatically back up photos, videos, music and documents from your system onto your My Passport drive with theincluded WD Backup software. Set it to your schedule.

Just pick the time and frequency.Password ProtectionBuilt-in 256-bit AES Hardware Encryption with WD Security software helps keep your content private and safe. Easily adda “return-if-found” message as the password prompt in case your My Passport drive ever gets lost. Even great minds likeyours can accidentally leave things behind.WD ReliabilityWD builds drives to demanding requirements for durability, shock tolerance and long-term reliability. And we back up(pardon the pun) the trusted My Passport drive with a 3-year limited warranty. Trusted and loved portable storage.The My Passport portable drive is trusted to store the massive amounts of photos, videos and music you love.Available in an array of vibrant, fun colors, the sleek style fits comfortably in the palm of your hand, so you caneasily take your treasured content everywhere you go.Auto BackupAutomatically back up photos, videos, music and documents from your system onto your My Passport drive with theincluded WD Backup software. Set it to your schedule.

Just pick the time and frequency.Password ProtectionBuilt-in 256-bit AES Hardware Encryption with WD Security software helps keep your content private and safe. Easily adda 'return-if-found' message as the password prompt in case your My Passport drive ever gets lost.

Even great minds likeyours can accidentally leave things behind.WD ReliabilityWD builds drives to demanding requirements for durability, shock tolerance and long-term reliability. And we back up(pardon the pun) the trusted My Passport drive with a 3-year limited warranty. ^Dell Business Credit: Offered to business customers by WebBank, Member FDIC, who determines qualifications for and terms of credit. Taxes, shipping and other charges are extra and vary. Minimum monthly payments are the greater of $15 or 3% of the new balance shown on the monthly billing statement.

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Wd Drive Utilities Not Detecting Drive

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