What is a My Passport used for?

The My Passport drive is trusted, portable storage that gives you the confidence and freedom to drive forward in life. With a new, stylish design that fits in the palm of your hand, there’s space to store, organize, and share your photos, videos, music, and documents.

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How do I backup my computer to my WD Passport?

Connect your WD My Passport drive and launch the disk backup software. Go to Backup tab and choose File Backup. You can also backup operating system, selected partitions, or the entire disk according to your needs.

Can you use My Passport as an external hard drive?

What is the WD My Passport and How Does it Work? The WD, or Western Digital, My Passport is an external hard drive that comes in many memory capacities. The small portable one holds one to four terabytes of data on a product that only measures 13.8 millimeters thick for drives that hold one to two terabytes of data.

How do I backup with My Passport?

How to set password for WD my passport?

Start by connecting your WD My Passport drive to your computer via a USB cable.

Launch the WD Security software and choose your drive.

Agree to the Terms&Conditions and go to the Set Security section.

Enter the password for your drive in the Password and Verify Password fields.

If necessary,input a password hint in the Password Hint field.

Why is my WD passport not showing up?

Method 1: Use Hardware And Devices Troubleshooter. On your Windows computer,open the Hardware and Devices Troubleshooter tool.

Method 2: Change WD Drive Letter. Sometimes,changing the drive letter can also help you resolve this issue.

Method 3: Reinstall WD drive’s driver. Open the Control Panel application on your computer.

How do you set up a WD passport?

Go to ‘https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx’ on your web browser.

Select the WD My Passport Ultra from the ‘Filter by Product’ drop-down list.

Scroll down to the WD My Passport Ultra Downloads section and click the+button beside the WD Drive Utilities for Windows option.

How do you unlock a WD passport?

WD my passport allows us to password protect the drive when connecting to any device. But having unlocked once, how to re-enable the lock. Of course one way is to eject the drive, but then again i have to re-connect the drive and unlock.