I’ve had and solved this same issue multiple times with two different WD My Passport drives.
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I’ve had and solved this same issue multiple times with two different WD My Passport drives; I thought they both had failed and we’re not recognizable on my Mac or any other computer.
You must boot your Mac in recovery mode (CMD-R while booting), mount, and run First Aid on the disks through the Disk Utility there. YOU MUST use the recovery mode Disk Utility to repair; it will not appear in your booted Disk Utility.
I hope that someone finds this useful. I thought I had lost years of music production backups, but i was able to save it with this method. Will be switching to a different brand of drives.
I’ve had and solved this same issue multiple times with two different WD My Passport drives.
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You must boot your Mac in recovery mode (CMD-R while booting), mount, and repair the disks through the Disk Utility there. YOU MUST use the recovery mode Disk Utility to repair; it will not appear in your booted Disk Utility.
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You must boot your Mac in recovery mode (CMD-R while booting), mount, and run First Aid on the disks through the Disk Utility there. YOU MUST use the recovery mode Disk Utility to repair; it will not appear in your booted Disk Utility.
I hope that someone finds this useful. I thought I had lost years of music production backups, but i was able to save it with this method. Will be switching to a different brand of drives.
I’ve had this same issue with two WD My Passport drives.
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I’ve had and solved this same issue multiple times with two different WD My Passport drives.
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I’ve been able to fix corrupted My Passport drives multiple times by booting up my Mac in recovery mode (CMD-R while booting) and repairing them through the disk utility there. YOU MUST use the recovery mode Disk Utility to repair; it will not appear in your booted Disk Utility.
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You must boot your Mac in recovery mode (CMD-R while booting), mount, and repair the disks through the Disk Utility there. YOU MUST use the recovery mode Disk Utility to repair; it will not appear in your booted Disk Utility.
I hope that someone finds this useful. I thought I had lost years of music production backups, but i was able to save it with this method. Will be switching to a different brand of drives.
I’ve had this same issue with two WD My Passport drives.
I’ve been able to fix corrupted My Passport drives multiple times by booting up my Mac in recovery mode (CMD-R while booting) and repairing them through the disk utility there. YOU MUST use the recovery mode Disk Utility to repair; it will not appear in your booted Disk Utility.
I hope that someone finds this useful. I thought I had lost years of music production backups, but i was able to save it with this method. Will be switching to a different brand of drives.