Thanks to Tolerance Sucks Rocks for the heads up!!
Posted on 08/23/2015 7:17:44 PM PDT by Perdogg
You could maybe open up the device manager and then see if the drive is found when plugged in, or if it pops up with an error message or greyed out (present but unavailable). This doesn’t necessarily solve the problem, but it might lead to more information.
It shows it on Windows 8.1 but not on Windows 10. Do I need to update the firmware?
Yea, kind of all over the place. Might not be many, but somebody will know what I’m talking about.
If I was more detailed in the OP, it would have been long, meandering and boring. Just the last gasp of somebody who’s been messing with Linux installs, Windows 10 re-installs since Friday afternoon.
I have of the 4 TB WD drives. Never crashed on me. I must have a great luck on XT HD’s as my maxtor’s from 2006 are still running great.
Effing W10. Totally useless..
Can’t say for sure. This is why I wait several months before upgrading a system. By that time the problems are resolved.
I would dig into the WD and Windows 10 support pages and see if they report a solution for USB port problems on Win 10 machines. You may have to reinstall win10 again in order to track down your problem.
Some of 'em got to tinkering with root kits and screwed that up for all of us.
You may have already seen this:
http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-Portable-Drives/Windows-10-and-WD-Elements/td-p/893805
Maybe something in there can help.
After trying Windows 8... I decided that I preferred Windows 7. I am definitely not going to Windows 10 unless there is some compelling reason to do so.
My backup external HDD is in love with my new Win10 machine. I’d have to look at it to see if it’s WD, but I think it is.
I will echo what someone else said here...get rid of the crap that comes on the drive. It used to screw me up.
I bring them home, format them, and move on.
My WD Passport is working on 10 as before on 8.0. I have a copy of that WD Passport on another Toshiba drive that is working on 10 after an upgrade from 8.1. Also, I have a WD MyBook that is working with 10 after an upgrade from 7 Home Media.
Yes. Pull your head out of your ass. Where you been for the past 4 years?
You are getting lots of information. This is actually a simple thing to do and nobody is born knowing how to do it.
First; are you using a MAC (or apple) style computer and running windows beside the MAC OS? If it is a MAC there will be a picture of an apple with a bite out of it on the outside of the cover.
You had said you upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1 so I assumed you were using a non-MAC computer.
Do not mess with Linux no matter what anyone else says. Linux is great but you do not need to learn something big and complicated to do what you want to do.
Basically you will want to delete the partition (or all of them if there are more than one) on your Passport drive and then format it again so you have the use of all of the drive without any WD software.
After you do that your Passport will work in any Windows computer.
There are various youtube videos for ‘delete partition and reformat’ but I recommend you get someone local to you to prepare your passport. It needs to be done on Windows (if you are using a Windows computer). Make sure you have done the first step of copying all of the data off of it before doing the partition and reformat.
It is 2 minutes of work and easy to do if you know how. It is fraught with agonizing decisions if you do not know how to do it.
Give someone $20 or find a friend.
Make sure you have done the first step of copying all of the data off of it before doing the partition and reformat.
Sorry, this should have been first in the list of things.
On your computer open ‘file Explorer’ and make a folder called ‘Passport Copy’ on your ‘C:’ drive. It might be called Windows_OS or some other name in front of the drive letter.
Then plug in your Passport and wait until it opens a window. If it doesn’t automatically open a window you can find it in ‘File Explorer’. Right-click on it and choose ‘open in a new window’.
Select all of the data (it all turns blue). If you select a folder all the data in the folder will come too so you do not have to select the files in a folder individually.
Right-click on the blue and select ‘copy’
Now open the new folder you just made called Passport Copy. Right-click inside the folder and choose paste. All of the data will copy over from the WD passport drive into the Passport Copy folder.
Now you are safe to reformat the WD USB drive. See above.
Thanks to Tolerance Sucks Rocks for the heads up!!
There probably isn’t any technical reason for this, MS just doesn’t give a damn.
Not sure how a disk isn’t compatible. It’s a disk. The software, maybe, but the disk, I don’t buy it.
I have NTI backup software (Seagate drive) and I had to go into program, properties, compatibility and let it make whatever changes in the software that it needed to be compatible. It is working in Win10 fine now. Your WD software may have something like it in the properties of the program.
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