

You can spotlight search for the program.

Wait till your external drive’s disk icon show up on your Mac’s desktop. And plug your Western Digital drive into your Mac’s USB port.

Wondering if this is an issue with Monterey since the older coms are not running that OS and are working fine. Before you format wd external hard drive for Mac. Not sure what to do as the internet isnt helping solve the problem. Select the file system you want, give your drive a. Right-click the drive and choose Format from the drop-down menu. It also still works on older devices.Ĥ) The other drive is brand new and nothing is working for that one to mount as well. To reformat a drive on Windows: Plug in the drive and open Windows Explorer. ( error 49153."ģ) I have run diagnoistics on the older drive and everything came back fine. Neither are working on the new ones.Ģ) I have looked in disk utility and I can see the drives but I cannot mount them. In the menu that pops up, select Decrypt Drive Name and enter the password. No matter what I do I can not get ANY exernal drive to mount on any of my new Macbooks running Monterey.ġ) I have downloaded the WD discovery and utility which is the program that has helped my older macbook and imac mount the drives. To unlock an encrypted hard drive, Control-click the drive icon in the main Finder. I also bought a brand new external drive (WD My Passport- which is suppoed to be compatable with macs) as well as have my old external drive (WD My Passport) that has been working on my old mackbook 15in and my even older iMac for years. My Passport Drives not working on brand new comp I have recently bought a brand 2 new Macbook Pro 14in and its running Monterey.
