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Question: Work with Linux? Anyone tried this drive with a Linux computer?
Document: Then I restarted my computer and put it back in and now it barely stays on at all. I'm happy I read some reviews because I'm a photographer and losing my work would've been devastating and I wouldn't want to this to happen to anyone else.I don't know if maybe this is better suited for a PC but if I were a Mac user I'd definitely consider another hard drive.
After about a day of use this hard drive decided it would randomly eject itself. Sometimes after ten minutes, sometimes ten seconds. I have tried it on other computers and the same thing happens. I have information on this hard drive I need for work and right now it might as well be a brick I plug in to my computer. I updated the firmware and the smartware and that did nothing. Still the same old piece of garbage. Thanks Western Digital.
For the record, all of the USB ports we tried were 2.0 or 3.0, so that's  not the problem.I would not recommend anyone purchase this drive if you're planning on storing important data on it, as there appears to be no way for us to recover the data without spending $1000+ on a professional data recovery service. Maybe if someone figures out how to solve this particular problem it would be okay, but for right now, why risk it?
Has anyone tried opening this case?Back in the day (2008), it was an easy matter of buying an external HD in an enclosure, and opening the enclosure to extract the drive. This drive would then get swapped for one already in my notebook. That way, I could upgrade the notebook HD and keep the old drive, putting it in the enclosure and using it for external storage, like backups.The last external enclosure I bought thwarted this brilliant plan.
Item does not work properly. Can not transfer data to back up my photos from my computer. I have tried this device on multiple computers and it does not work.
I bought this harddrive to use as a backup device for an Ubuntu Linux server I am running. I reformatted the disk drive using the GParted Linux utility to use the "ext3" file system format. I've set up a couple of chron files that do two different backups of my Linux system, each twice a week in the wee hours of the morning. So far this has worked out flawlessly. Needless to say, I am most pleased that I was able to simply reformat the drive to work with Ubuntu Linux.
Then I tried it on my PC at work. The driver loaded ok and everything seemed ok. I stopped the copying of data and opened the My Passport HD which seemed a bit confusing. Lots of confusion screens with My Passport but then again I am not a computer whiz. A few of my files were there. OK.  Fine. Then I attempted to delete the files as one is apt to do. They wouldn't delete. Fortunately I didn't load anything truly important or I'd be exceedingly miffed.
epic fail initial for Linux but worked great on Windows systems. Windows based Ext HD portable device, I had to work hard to get it running with other OS's like Linux Mint, Ubuntu or Zorin.
Bought this for my imac ~ it won't format. Total nightmare, look for something else. It says "Cannot dismount volumes". Tried googling that and no luck. Frustrating to say the least. Anyone else have this issue?
hello. I bought WD My Passport 1TB month ago. after two weeks problem was appear: so when I make download documents (movie, music atc.) it's 25-30 mb/s but when I upload documents it's 2-3 mb/s. so can anyone help me what is problem and is it fixable. I tried to format but even format took 2-3 minutes. so please if anyone had the same problem let me know.
Answer: Hi Kevin I have bought this hard drive, and when I plug in into my Linux machine it displays correctly the device but It cannot be mounted , because it is formatted in NTFS and it does not let to see what it is inside it only shows a kinda warning that says you do not have permissions to mount this hard drive , so if you want to open you have to do it in a terminal and do a forced mounting by command. I have found a way on the internet how to make this drive fully compatible with Linux OS and how to erase definitively the 70 Gb software that comes installed when you have never formatted the hard drive I have no tested this method , because I do not have much time to deal with (Need to do homework at the University and other stuffs) here is the link: http://superuser.com/questions/44318/how-do-i-remove-a-mybooks-wd-smartware-virtual-cd-from-my-desktop . Well thats all hope this info helps you ^^. I am non native english speaker I really sorry for my english. Greetings! from Venezuela.