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1. Western digital 500gb my passport for mac portable hard drive how to#
2. Western digital 500gb my passport for mac portable hard drive windows 7#

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub mortimer:~ # lsusb -v -s 1:3 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1058:070a Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Ran some diagnostics and hope someone in this community has a good advise I’m afraid the problem is with het hardwarecontroller / firmware (?) of the harddisk AFAIK even unitialised disks report there correct geometry and size and are readable in linux with dd Any suggestions ? Kind regards, Cees - scanning the USB bus - mortimer:~ # lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1058:070a Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Didn’t think it’s the best thing to do it if you want to recover the files on it… Hmmm, 2TB doesn’t sound right So before I screw things up or ill advise here to throw away the disk / pay a lot of money to a company to try and recover the data, I switched to linux.

Western digital 500gb my passport for mac portable hard drive how to#

And asks how to initialise it (MBR or something else).

Western digital 500gb my passport for mac portable hard drive windows 7#

(BTW: I’ve tried different computers & different USB cable, good suggestion I hadn’t thought of) - Hooking it on a Windows 7 machine, the storage manager indicates that’s a uninitialised 2TB drive. USB connection is made, but because there are no valid partions, no drives are mounted. Hello, Yesterday a friend of mine came over to me with exactly the same (type of) hard-disk and exactly the same symptons.She hopes I’m able to recover the files on the disk (unfortunately she didn’t make backups) Anyway, some diggin’ learned that: - There’s no valid partition table.