I am an average user with average technical skills, and this one has me stumped. It could be that I got suckered on buying a defective drive, but a quick check on Google shows this is a very common problem with WD external drives and there are hundreds of suggested fixes.
I tried that several more times with the same result.
I tried downloading a driver from WD, but it will not install. Seagate external drive, a 1TB Western Digital MyPassport external drive. 74.99 (You save 22.00) After instant savings. This case began with the lawful seizure of seven pieces of digital media. There are currently nine series of My Book drives Essential Edition, Home Edition. No rating value average rating value is 0.0 of 5. My Book is a series of external hard drives produced by Western Digital.
I saw an earlier response that involves modifying the registry, but I am very hesitant to do that because of past registry problems on a different PC. Western Digital My Passport Portable External Hard Drive, 1TB, Black. I am running XP with SP3 on an older Dell Latitude D620. My Passport USB 3.0 External Hard Drive 2tb external hard drive ps4. The drive does not show in the device manager or through My Computer. WD 2TB USB 3.1 Gen 1 External Hard 2tb external hard drive ps4 compatible. 66 Samsung Portable SSD T7 500GB USB 3. There is no USB device acknowledgement of new device found. WESTERN DIGITAL WDBVPL0010BBK-NESN Wd 1TB My Passport Wireless Pro Portable External Hard Drive - WiFi USB 3.0 - 896 226.66 226. The light comes on and there are soft noises from within, but when I connect to my laptop, the drive is not recognized. Beeping is not a sound you want to hear coming from a external hard drive. I have a WD 1TB external hard drive, supposed new without documentation. My Western Digital Passport Drive is broken, when I went to plug it in today, it makes 7 beeps, then 3, then another 3 sounds when connected.