- #How can i tell my wd my passport is actually backing up how to#
- #How can i tell my wd my passport is actually backing up password#
Figure 2: My Passport Go drive, with built-in USB 3. A USB 2.0 Interface supports data transfer rates up to 480 Mb/s. USB 3.0 is backward compatible with USB 2.0. In addition to the above way, MiniTool ShadowMaker as an alternative to WD Smartware backup provides another way for you to back up system disk and that is to make a disk cloning. As shown in figure 2, the My Passport Go drive has: A built-in USB 3.0 Type-A cable USB 3.0 Cable The USB 3.0 Type-A cable supports data transfer rates up to 5 Gb/s. When Windows fails to boot, you can restore the system from the created system image.
#How can i tell my wd my passport is actually backing up how to#
Replace it with the correct drive letter of your own drive. Here are all the steps of how to use WD Smartware alternative MiniTool ShadowMaker. Your WD My Passport drive will appear as a rectangular, yellow icon on your desktop (it looks just like the image below). Just turn on your Mac and when it boots up, plug in your My Passport drive to your WD. H represents the drive letter of your WD My Passport external hard drive. The information youll find here touches on formatting and reformatting WDs My Passport for your Mac.
Step 2: Type chkdsk H: /f /r and hit enter. If this is not supposed to work than I will quit trying. Step 1: In Windows 11/10/8/7, press Windows + X keys to bring up a context menu, and choose Command Prompt (Admin). Is there something special that needs to be done with a laptop in order for the booted repair disk be able to see the USB drive. My most basic question is: Is this suppose to work? Should the booted repair disk be able to see the USB drive? It certainly works perfectly on my Win8 desktop. The only problem is that the system created by booting off the Repair disk seems unable to see the USB drive. The steps to recover the image seem quite straight forwared - boot up on your repair disk and request to restore a system image. I think I have wasted my money on this hardware encrypting drive.
#How can i tell my wd my passport is actually backing up password#
I know it is good because I can plug the USB drive into my Win8 Desktop machine, boot off my repair disk for that machine and it will show me the Win7 system image. By performing a large file (1GB) copy from C: to WD My Passport drive, before and after applying password, it can be seen that either encryption is always performed or NOT at all performed and only password flag is applied within disk. The image now sits on a WD My Passport Ultra USB drive.
The steps to create the system image were simple and worked perfectly. Thanks for trying to help but it seems like not many folks have actually tried to save and recover a system image on a laptop.