I bought a Western Digital My Passport Essential Portable Hard Drive to backup my laptop. It comes with a warranty brochure that gives warranty information in every written language family you can think of (Hebrew, Arabic, Korean, Cyrillic, etc.) but nothing with so much as a sentence of instructions. I plugged in the cord and the power comes up but nothing indicates that it’s backing anything up and there is no icon or anything else on my desktop to indicate the computer knows its connected to a Western Digital device.
I went to their website which I’m sure has the answer on there somewhere but damned if I can find it. Does anybody know if it’s supposed to come with instructions or if something is supposed to come up on the screen or if this one is a dud?
I think this one is a dud. It looks refurbished (lots of scratches, a very sticky back that looks like a Velcro strip has been peeled off) and for a moment an ‘Install driver’ prompt came up, but then nothing. Is or isn’t a dud, it’s going back.
“Sampiro” I bought one a while ago and formated it NTSC as file system, Windows did not show it in “my computer” with a new drive letter, but it showed in “device manager”, I found out that I had to do a “right click” on the drive letter C and select something, maybe somebody can help me out, what I had to activate in order to get a drive letter and with that access to the drive…?
I had a Western Digital My Book Essential, and never could get it to be recognized by my PS3*. I could see it on my PCs, though, so it might not be the same issue you’re having. It came preloaded with a User manual, WD Quick Formatter.exe, and WD SmartWare.exe. I ended up tasking it back and getting a Seagate GoFlex, but that’s been giving me issues with becoming unaccessible on one older laptop. I’m worried it’s failing. Who makes a reliable USB drive anymore?
Yes, after reformatting the drive to FATwhatever that the PS3 required.