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Wd my passport how to open up
Wd my passport how to open up





I have no idea what happened I was just transferring my old data from my 160gb to my new 500 gb then I think I just touch usb cable and this thing happened. “Well I try something like going at my device manager and it appear at the category of other devices with a exclamation mark.

wd my passport how to open up

No doubt it was formatted NTFS by Windows. I believe it would need to be formatted as FAT32 for the PS3 to see it, which is really a waste of such a large drive. “And then when I tried it to my PS3 it doesn’t show up.” If it getting full, has long file names and many directory levels, or is becoming fragmented, this will make it slower. Well, USB isn’t that fast, and you now have a larger drive. It takes a long time to open in Explorer:

wd my passport how to open up

However if it would just be Nice to recover the Data and you can afford to loose it completely you can try Opening the Command Prompt and entering chkdsk /r and it may do some good or just as easily it may completely destroy the Partition Tables requiring a Format with the complete loss of Stored Data. The more that you unsuccessfully attempt to repair the drive the less likely you are to get a full Data Recovery and the more that it’s going to cost to perform the Recovery regardless of what % of the data is recovered. If you don’t have your Data still on the Old Drive you’ll need to attack the drive with some form of Data Recovery Program that Rebuilds the Partition Tables but if the data on the drive is ”Important” you should packup the drive and send it to a Specialist Data Recovery House.

wd my passport how to open up

I would hazard a guess that your old drive is a FAT 32 Partition Type and your new drive is a NTFS Partition Type which is why the PS3 can not read it now but that’s just a guess.

wd my passport how to open up

You should use a FAT 32 Partition Table not a NTFS if you want/need to use it on different Platforms like a PS3 and PC. If it’s just the Partition Tables Corrupted and you still have a valid copy of your Data all you need do is Open Drive Management and format the drive again. You can not just unplug any external USB Drive you need to dismount it first hence the Safely Remove Option on the Task Bar. The most obvious thing is that something has happened to the USB Driver with a recent Windows Hot Patch, the recent Patch Tuesday but just as possible if you have not been using the Safely Remove Option on the Start Bar the Partition Tables could have been corrupted.







Wd my passport how to open up