WD Passport, not showing up on Disk Utility

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I have been working in cross platforms, and made a switch from Windows to Mac(MBP2015).
The previous night, I copied some project files onto my External Hard Drive. It was all fine, today morning, its just not showing up.

I have a NTFS reader installed on the Mac
I did the reset PRAM.
I checked both USB ports, and both are working fine.
Other NTFS hard drives are all showing up without an issue on the mac.
I left it connected for close to 2 hours hoping it fix itself and mount.
The disk is spinning and the lights are on.

So, I connected it to my Windows laptop, and it wouldn’t load there as well. It shows up, but when you click on it, the computer hands, the disk management doesn’t load.

It’s like overnight the hard disk just stopped working

Also, I did the eject the disk before ejecting

[Jonty.S]

Hi,

You could refer to the following link: Error

[mikes2]

If your hard disk drive becomes unresponsive then there are chances that your drive may become RAW or inaccessible. There are various reasons for this issue such as BIOS settings, USB data line, USB interface voltage variability, drive hidden issue or compatibility issue, etc.

Whatever be the reason, the end result is data inaccessibility or data loss .

You can try the below options as a solution for this issue:

1. Establish a connection between another system and USB Data Line to verify whether it is broken or not.
2. Make sure the system and motherboard are compatible with each other.
3. Verify whether the USB interface voltage is up to the mark or not.
4. Use Disk Management to unhide the drive.
5. Ensure USB is enabled in Operating System as well as in BIOS.

If you wish to recover data from a faulty or unreadable hard disk drive, then you can easily do that as it’s not that challenging, if you have the right tools with you such as reliable data recovery software. There are many data recovery software options available, but here, I recommend you to use Stellar Data Recovery Professional Software as it is one of the easiest to use data recovery software that enables the user to recover their lost or deleted data from corrupted, unresponsive or accidentally formatted drive and even recover lost partitions of the drive.

You can also check out the below blog to know the best possible ways on “How to Recover Files from a Corrupt or Unresponsive Drive?”

Hope this will help.