At times, WD My Passport wont show up when you connect it to your Mac computer, the WD My Passport is greyed out in Disk Utility, or WD hard drives light is on but not working.

You can do some basic checks to troubleshoot whether this issue is resulted from those factors.

Try quickly plug and slowly plug, sometimes it just works for no reason.

In other words, you didnt allow the connected hard drives showing up in the Finder or on the desktop.

So its possible that youll see the WD My Passport for Mac drive not mounting in Disk Utility.

But dont worry. There is a native repair tool called First Aid in your Mac computers Disk Utility, which is able to analyze and repair basic hard drive problems especially with file systems and catalogs, extends, volume bit maps.

To avoid the loss of important data, please make sure you have a backup copy of data.

Backup Onto My Passport Professional Mac Data

You can at first recover lost data from the WD My Passport for Mac with professional Mac data recovery software, like iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac.

Backup Onto My Passport Mac OS X 10

Its compatible with macOS Catalina 10.15Mojave 10.14High SierraSierra 10.12 and Mac OS X 10.1110.1010.910.810.7.

Very probably, your My Passport for Mac may have some hardware problems.

Its better to send it to a local reparation center.

How To Backup Onto My Passport For Mac