I only saved my data onto a WD passport drive, not realizing that it needs to be formatted differently for a Mac vs.

PC. Is there any way for me to access the data already on the drive on the PC The instructions I have found online require reformatting the drive, which I assume would wipe out existing data.

The old Mac was dying so I cant re-access the data off it unfortunately.

My Passport Work On Windows Mac Hard Drive

Some examples are on the link below, but just do a search for accessing mac hard drive from windows 10 to see others.

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.

In either way, your important data on this drive will become inaccessible.

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.

My Passport Work On Windows 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.

In addition, the following reasons may also lead to WD My Passport for Mac not showing up or not working.

In order to maintain your WD My Passport for Mac in good condition, you should pay attention to.

My Passport For Mac Work On Windows