🤓2023 Fixed | WD Passport Not Showing Up in Windows 10/11 & WD Passport Not Recognized/Not Dectected

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WD passport not showing up? Western Digital my passport not showing up? Why my passport WD not showing up? Check this video, here are 3 methods to fix WD Passport not showing up and how to recover lost data from WD Passport.
📌Timestamp
00:00 Intro
00:44 Reason for WD Passport Not Showing
01:36 Solution 1: Plug WD passport into another USB port
02:30 Solution 2: Checking for outdated driver for your WD passport
03:27 Solution 3: Change your WD drive letter and path
04:26 Ultimate Solution: Recover data from unrecognized WD Passport
👉What is the reason for this issue?
There can be so many reasons that can cause your “WD Passport not showing up in windows” and here are some of the major reasons: A damaged USB hub or faulted USB cable, outdated WD drive driver, failure in assigning drive letter to your drive. Whatever the reasons maybe, I have few solutions for you.
👉How to Fix WD Passport not showing up?
Firstly, we’ll try changing the port of drive, next we’ll be trying to scan for any outdate driver for your drive, latter we’ll try to change the drive letter assigned to your drive. And if nothing works, we have an ultimate solution. So, let’s move ahead with the solutions.
👉Solution 1: Plug WD passport into another USB port
You can try changing the port to prevent the “WD passport not showing up” issue. Sometimes, the port gets damaged and ends up causing the problem.
Here’s how to change your port:
After taking out the WD passport, you’ll need to clean other ports you’re looking to use. Next, plug in your hard drive to the port and check whether this trick has worked or not. You can also try replacing the USB cable with another one, because there might be a chance that your hard drive cable is damaged. And replacing the USB cable will fix the issue.
If this has worked for you then you’re done, but if not then try the following solutions.
👉Solution 2: Checking for outdated driver for your WD passport
Another thing that might help you get rid of the “WD passport not showing up” is updating the USB controller or WD, my passport drivers.
Remember, updating your device drivers will always help you fix the minor issues that your computer tends to face. After updating your drivers, you’ll be able to fix the issue you’re facing.
Now, follow the steps carefully.
Click on the start button, and search for ‘Device Manager’, next expand ‘Disk drives’, right click on your WD passport and click on update driver.
Wait for the update process and check if your drive is fixed.
👉Solution 3: Change your WD drive letter and path
Changing the drive letter has also fixed a lot of issues and even this situation changing the drive letter might just fix your WD drive’s not showing up error.
Alright, first click on start, and search for “Disk management” and click on “Create and format hard disk partitions”. After that right click on your WD passport and choose change drive letter. Next, click on ‘Add’. Later, you’ll need to select a new driver letter and finally, restart your computer.
Hopefully this solution has fixed your WD Drive letter not showing up.
👉Ultimate solution: How to recover data from unrecognized WD Passport?
And if none of these methods worked for your then try the ultimate solution, which is by using a professional data recovery software known as Tenorshare 4DDiG. Which allows you to put things in order with minimal effort. 4DDiG supports 1000+ file types, meaning you can recover data from multiple data without any fuss.
It can also recover data from both internal and external devices, including PCs, USBs, SD Card, external hard drives, digital cameras, etc.
1. Run 4DDiG. Select your WD Passport and click on scan.
2. Select the file types that you want to recover.
3. Select the folders or files that you want to recover. And click on the recover button.
4. Recover data to desired destination.
As you can see, recovering files using 4DDiG is extremely easy and effective. Well, in this way you can recover your lost files from your WD passport hard drive.
In this way you can fix your WD Passport not showing up in windows 10/11
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@Tenorshare4DDiGDataRecovery Жыл бұрын

To recover data from not dectected WD Passport, you can use this professional data recovery software: bit.ly/3lbtyOn

@KenAmmi-Shalom 5 ай бұрын

The video is incoherent, if "WD Passport Not Showing Up" then how do I click on it under disk drivers since well, "WD Passport Not Showing Up"?

@AaA-bq2dc Жыл бұрын

Thanks, drive letter change worked. After windows 11 upgrade no drive letter was assigned to WD

@ZULEEIRL Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! THE 3RD OPTION FIXED MY ISSUE. i HAD TO FORMAT THE DISKS IN ORDER TO WORK BUT I DIDN'T MIND! THANKS AGAIN!! YOU GET A SUB FROM ME...

@poy9112 Жыл бұрын

my wd doesnt even show up in the disk drive

@kamran8247 11 ай бұрын

Same situation. Haven't you solved the problem if you've solved please guide me as well.

@matthewdean716 10 ай бұрын

I am having the same issue as well. 🤯

@alexg2012 Ай бұрын

same issue

@poy9112 Ай бұрын

all i did was buy a new cord for my wd sorry for the late response

@dniiez_one 10 ай бұрын

Had the same problem. Couldn’t find anything online that helped. Messed around and found I was able to format my WD Passport to work on Windows 11 by going to: System>Storage>Disks&Volumes. Disk management was no use for me since the drive initially did not show up. Now it shows up and works. Hope this helps.

@CMDR.Useless 3 ай бұрын

Dude i fucking love you. Literally the only person not repeating the same stuff and you actually solved it for me.

@miriammorales9121 11 ай бұрын

My WD Passport was from my work Dell laptop - and all of the files work fine as long as i am connected to my work Dell laptop. But now i want to use it from my personal HP laptop. These steps work - but for some reason none of the files show up correctly. When i plug in my WD the HP does not ask for password. How do i fix this?

@ss2448 Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU!! IT WORKED!! 🙏🏽

@reesaoldyear7763 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video. When I connect my WD external HDD nothing shows up in disk management. As soon as I disconnect it, other drives show up. Last time it became full, almost nothing left free. It's a 2TB MY PASSPORT ULTRA. Could the issue be the HDD being full?

@bobroch1107 10 ай бұрын

I cannot install WD Passport Ultra. The last driver is missing. I have windows 7

@IamRavitheja 10 ай бұрын

WD not showing and how can we change the driver letter it's not showing at all to change 🙄

@renefloor5348 10 ай бұрын

Thanks, all the mentioned solutions doesnt work… got a new cable, still a propblem. For a reason I an not able to change the drive letter.

@SicketMog Жыл бұрын

So I'm following your guide, and at around 4:00 I'm trying to do this but the option to assign the drive letter is greyed out and doesn't work to click. What do I do? The harddrive is recognized, it shows, but it doesn't work and it would seem assigning a letter could fix it but it won't let me (?). Edit: using W10 btw if it matters. The only options that are available are to remove it and "help" (which is of no help at all).

@dominicrivera4300 Жыл бұрын

Im in the same situation, have you found a solution? Im using windows 11 and have different cables that work with other external drives and all ports on a almost new lenovo pc.

@tidusxcloud0005 Жыл бұрын

What i did was i deleted both the unallocated section which was a couple hundred MB, then deleted the mass of the hard drive (mine was about 1.8TB), then created a New Volume and it worked for me!

@𰽪 Жыл бұрын

the 3rd step made it work for me thank yooooooou

@raedelatorre2592 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@Chris3460 11 ай бұрын

Your ultimate solution is moronic. It may work for retrieving lost files from the drive, but if it's not showing up in Windows, you can't use it.

@ZzRazor87 Жыл бұрын

hey . i tried the program . is says my passport WD is 0 bytes. so i cannot formating anything . i have windows 11 pro amd wd my passport 5 terrabytes is new product buy for me... Help ?

@ZzRazor87 Жыл бұрын

HDD wd my passport 5 terra

@abhineet3695 Жыл бұрын

did you find any solution? My 5tb wd passport is not showing up in disk management. it gets detected in safe to remove icon and then it gets disappeared and in device manager it says unknown USB device error. and after some time it brings a notification that usb device is not recognized (the last usb device you connected to this computer has malfunctioned)

@nikolaimestserjakov2502 Жыл бұрын

@@abhineet3695 same problem here, drive not recognized, can be ejected, nothing in the drive management, not being recognized by the system. Tried different USB ports, different cables, different computer. 5 TB WD Elements

@bensondewalt8200 9 ай бұрын

Cut to the chase bro. God dam.

@h3nnkka90 Ай бұрын

changing letter and formatting helped me too thanks ! The pc could not find right driver itself

@Phreakdawg 5 ай бұрын

The solution is to return it and buy a drive from a company that doesn't make garbage

@kdexpressoo6023 5 ай бұрын

I formatted my WD My Passport with Easeus because Windows 8 wouldn't partition it. It froze when partitioning. I didn't know about cmd's and ending processes then. Turned the pc off. Corrupted the drive. Doesn't get detected. It's been sitting there since Windows 8, It would have to be reset by mfg, refurbisher or hammer. The solution for me was best to use a 2.5 case and insert a 2.5 hard drive. The thing I liked about those passports was the features but, don't really need the features anyway.