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Windows or macOS Cannot Find My Drive
Important:
There are many reasons an
instructions below are designed to assist in troubleshooting issues related to drives and devices not
being recognized by a computer. Please try one solution at a time and test for resolution before
continuing with the next item.
Windows OS
Direct Attached Storage (DAS) on Windows
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Internal Hard Drives and Solid State Drives on
Windows
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Network Attached Storage (NAS) on Windows
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How to access Disk Utility on macOS
Disk Utility is the name of a utility, created by Apple, for performing disk-related tasks on macOS. These
tasks include:
The creation, conversion, compression and encryption of disk images from a wide range of formats read
by Disk Utility to .dmg or .cdr, which is identical to the .iso format
Mounting, unmounting, and ejecting disks (including both hard disks, removable media and disk images)
Enabling or disabling journaling
Verifying a disk's integrity, and repairing it if the disk is damaged
Verifying and repairing permissions
Disk erasing, formatting and partitioning
Secure deletion of free space or disk using a 35-pass Gutmann algorithm
Adding or changing partition table between Apple Partition Table and GUID Partition Table
Creating, destroying, and repairing RAID sets
Restoring volumes from scanned for ASR images
Burning disk images to CD or DVD in HFS+ format
Erasing CD-RWs and DVD-RWs
Checking the S.M.A.R.T status of a hard disk
Please follow the directions below to access Disk Utility on macOS
Click on the
Spotlight
Type
Disk Utility
in the search field
Double-click on
Disk Utility - Utilities
Spotlight is a convenient tool for quickly locating and accessing data and programs on a macOS PC.
Please know there are other methods of accessing programs on a macOS PC. Follow the steps outlined
below for locating and opening
Operating System (OS)
icon from the menu
Disk Utility
from Finder.
does not recognize a WD drive. The
macOS
Direct Attached Storage (DAS) on macOS
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Internal Hard Drives and Solid State Drives on
macOS
Click here for Instructions
Network Attached Storage (NAS) on macOS
Click here for Instructions
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Summary of Contents for Western Digital WD10SPZX
- Page 1 Windows or macOS Cannot Find My Drive Important: There are many reasons an Operating System (OS) does not recognize a WD drive. The instructions below are designed to assist in troubleshooting issues related to drives and devices not being recognized by a computer. Please try one solution at a time and test for resolution before continuing with the next item.
- Page 2 For more information on how to avoid ESD damage please see Answer ID 16889: How to properly handle Western Digital internal hard drives Please follow the instructions below to check a WD drive for damage:...
- Page 3 How to low level format or write zeros (Erase) to a WD hard drive or SSHD Western Digital provides software utilities that can erase all the data on a hard drive. Erasing a drive is recommended any time an operating system is to be reinstalled on a boot drive or whenever a blank drive is desired.
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