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MacBook (OSX Yosemite) no longer recognizing my WD External Hard Drive
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<blockquote data-quote="PKthunder" data-source="post: 1629981" data-attributes="member: 340389"><p>Earlier today I bought an HP laptop that runs Windows 8 and I attempted to connect my WD My Book External HD (1 TB) for Mac to it and download a firmware update from the Western Digital website to see if that would get it to read it even though it says its "for Mac". I realize that was probably dumb.</p><p> Well as you can imagine it didn't update the firmware so I unplugged it and reconnected it to my MacBook. Usually it would appear on my MacBook Desktop within a few moments but it didn't. I went to the WD driver website again to try and update the firmware, downloaded the driver, extracted it and ran it but now it says "Unable to update firmware on this device. Please contact support." </p><p></p><p>I can't find it in Disk Utility.</p><p>I've tried powering down and restarting my MacBook to no avail.</p><p>The HD itself is plugged in and the power light is on.</p><p></p><p>I pray I didn't lose all my back ups!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PKthunder, post: 1629981, member: 340389"] Earlier today I bought an HP laptop that runs Windows 8 and I attempted to connect my WD My Book External HD (1 TB) for Mac to it and download a firmware update from the Western Digital website to see if that would get it to read it even though it says its "for Mac". I realize that was probably dumb. Well as you can imagine it didn't update the firmware so I unplugged it and reconnected it to my MacBook. Usually it would appear on my MacBook Desktop within a few moments but it didn't. I went to the WD driver website again to try and update the firmware, downloaded the driver, extracted it and ran it but now it says "Unable to update firmware on this device. Please contact support." I can't find it in Disk Utility. I've tried powering down and restarting my MacBook to no avail. The HD itself is plugged in and the power light is on. I pray I didn't lose all my back ups! [/QUOTE]
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