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The only new thing is some notification popped up that said ‘your computer does not recognize this’ (something to this affect) That was the 1st time I have ever seen this on my screen.Īll I can tell you is what is on the box, at the top left it says ‘My Passport Ultra’ and on the top right ‘WD absolutely’ if any of this means anything.
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I have attempted to update various different ways, using a new install disk to update, doing a fresh install and then copying all data, and doing a. Then you’ll need get a software driver so that you can use your WD drive on your Mac. I was running 10.11.6 on my GA-Z77X-UD5H board firmware F14 on my WD 500GB Green drive, to simplify everything I've removed my GPU and am running with ONLY the intel HD 4000 integrated graphics.
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As a matter of fact I tried to open WD installer from inside the applications folder and in FInder it shows under the ‘Locations’ column, I tried to open it there too - still nothing. And the Utilities folder lives in your Application’s folder on.
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Has anyone had any luck making this work?Ĭan you share full detailed instructions on how to move pass the sign-in screen or bypass it completely? I also opened the WD security from inside my applications folder still no luck, it won’t move pass that screen. I find it awful that I paid more than 319 for the My Book Duo to backup my Mac via Time Machine and the software that is supposed to work properly isn’t working properly because of an operating. When I try to contact WD, I don’t get a response. Its annoying after all this time for there to not be any announcements or updates with full detailed instructions from WD abt their own products. macOS Catalina 10.15 has been out for a couple months and Western Digital still hasn’t released an update that supports the new operating system.
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Honestly I think it still worked for a while when my macbook pro updated itself to Catalina, then suddenly it stopped and I have not been able to get my computer to recognize it since.ĭo I need to buy a new hard drive? or is there any hope for this to ever work again with my laptop? I paid a lot of money for it to when I first bought it but now it no longer works. Here we are now just beginning August 2020 and still nothing has changed with this hard drive.