WD passport essential I/O Read ONLY

nevillemau

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How can I unlock my WD passport essential? I installed Mac OS X El Capitan on one partition (500 gb each), but now it says only read. I cannot save nor delete any of it's stored date.
Please help.
Thank you.
 
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Hi Nevill.

Sorry to hear about the issues you're having with your drive. Have you experienced any other problems with the drive in the past? http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/run-el-capitan-on-hard-drive-yosemite-on-mac-3533305/ is that what you've done? If you have no data which you need to keep on that drive, you could try low level formatting it to see if that fixes things up, but you'd have no data left on the drive and after that you'd need to initialize it and partition and format it as if it was a brand new internal HDD. Here's how to low level format it: http://www.ehow.com/info_12039815_low-level-format-mac-os-x.html.

Hope that helps. Please let me know how it goes.
Boogieman_WD
Hi Nevill.

Sorry to hear about the issues you're having with your drive. Have you experienced any other problems with the drive in the past? http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/run-el-capitan-on-hard-drive-yosemite-on-mac-3533305/ is that what you've done? If you have no data which you need to keep on that drive, you could try low level formatting it to see if that fixes things up, but you'd have no data left on the drive and after that you'd need to initialize it and partition and format it as if it was a brand new internal HDD. Here's how to low level format it: http://www.ehow.com/info_12039815_low-level-format-mac-os-x.html.

Hope that helps. Please let me know how it goes.
Boogieman_WD
 
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nevillemau

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Hello Boogieman_WD,

Thanks for the assistance.
Days ago, my WD Passport Essential (1TB), which I partitioned to 2 500gb is still mounting. But one of the partition named 'My Passport 1' is no longer mounting and was renamed 'disk2s2'.
The other partition named 'My Passport 2' don't have any problem at all.
Is there a software I can use to back-up some data files before I erase and reformat the 1st partition with error.
Thanks.