My Passport Wireless Pro - System Recovery or Hard Drive replacement

WD External Drives My Passport Wireless
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I have success using a m.2 WD blue 1TB SATA + 2.5 enclosure using the SD card method. All using Windows Disk Manager

  1. format the SSD into GPT, it will create a 200MB parition
  2. create a partition (don’t use all of the remaining space (say 95368MB is all the space avail), enter 95368 - 4130. You should see a black 4.03GB Unallocated partition in Disk Manager
  3. format the partition to exfat
  4. Use the SD card method as stated above
  5. wait for a bit and viola! Magic happens

Initially when I went to the GUI, I realize the reporting size is like 768MB! Plug the drive into Windows and I do see 1TB, so I went to the admin tab and do a factory restore (with disk option), after the next reboot, it shows up at 1TB now. Even the picture shows up as My Passport Wireless SSD!

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