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Hi,

I just bought a 1TB My Passport external HD yesterday. It was working fine until decided to reformat the drive. Every time I plug it in to my laptop, it won’t recognize it and Im seeing a message saying “No writable Smartware partition found”.  I really need the external HD more as a storage and than for back up. Can someone kindly help me figure out on how my laptop can recognize the drive?

Thanks in advance!

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Hi,

If is just for storage, you can unistall the smartware that is only for the backup…

That’s the way I use it just for storage…