Western Digital has a wide range of external storage device. WD Passport is one of the portable external storage device launched by Western Digital Company. My Passport drives are crafted in a way to give it a look and size that of a passport. Drive of the Passport series does not require power socket. It has become more popular in today’s world because of its small size and large storage capacity. It can hold data of 1TB within it and it has also got a sleek, fashionable look. Although they are designed to accommodate loads of files and folders in it, still there always lies a risk of deletion or loss of important contents from the portable external storage media. The main reason behind missing / lost data file is assumed to be corruption. In such situation you can now easily restore Western Digital Passport damaged or accidentally deleted files.

Included WD Discovery™ software 1 connects to popular social media and cloud storage services, like Facebook, Dropbox and Google Drive™. Import your photos, videos and docs to the My Passport drive to help preserve your online life 2. WD Discovery can also be used to manage your drive with WD Drive Utilities. Supported OS: Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista. Drivers Update Tool Information This utility contains the only official version for WD My Passport 071A USB Device Driver for Windows XP/7/Vista/8/8.1/10 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

A Common Scenario to consider-

Normally people use it to maintain back up of all the important and precious files. Have you ever thought if suddenly your entire back up files happens to be vanished because of some unknown reasons then what immediate steps are to be taken? To understand the concept of this restoration wizard, we shall elaborately look into a scenario where user keeps maintaining his back up on his WD Passport but one day he remains stunned to see that all his back up files are missing as soon as he connects the Passport to his Mac computer. What worries user most is that it held some of the most cherished and vivid memories. User keeps combing internet for some reliable restoration application but nothing turns out. If this your case, what will you do?? You are luckily fortunate as this program supports all the different editions of Mac computers. To know the Western Digital Data recovery process for Mac machines, you need to visit here.

Why to use this Passport recovery tool?

  • This program can effectively perform corrupt hard disk data recovery within few seconds.
  • As WD storage media are vulnerable to power surge issues, hence this software has been designed in a way to rescue data and files lost after conking battery or power fluctuation issue.
  • This software also supports WD Passport, WD My Book, WD Elements data recovery all the different versions of Windows and Mac computers.
  • It excellently retrieves data from non-bootable device.
  • It rescues different types of multimedia files, documentary word files, inadvertently deleted data and files from WD hard disk drive.

If you want to know how to restore deleted files on WD external HDD, follow the link for reference: http://www.recoverwd.com/deleted-files-western-digital-hard-drive.html.

Does and Don’ts-

As soon as you find out some information are being deleted unintentionally from your device, or you mind the data contents are missing from your Western Digital Passport it is recommended not to perform any read / write operation in it so as to prevent overwriting of the lost / deleted contents from it.

Don not use the same storage device in different devices as the stored data may get lost due to virus infection.

Avoid abrupt removal of the external storage device from your Windows or Mac OS based computers.

Glance at how data and files may get deleted / lost from the WD Passport

User Errors: User / human errors are most responsible for unaware deletion of data and files from different storage devices.

Usage of Command Prompt / Terminal Point-

Command Prompt and Terminal Point is used in all the versions of Windows and Macintosh OS. If user wants to delete files permanently from any of the Windows OS then they can make use of command prompt keys like “DELETE” or “ERASE” to delete single or multiple files in a way that they do not get accommodated in the Recycle Bin and the free space is maintained in the local machine.
For Mac machines, as it is based on UNIX there is Terminal Point instead of Command Prompt. The command used to delete information and contents are-
rm- To delete a single file / folder.
rm-rf- To delete multiple files and folders in a single time.

Accidental Deletion-

Since Passport is an external storage device hence even on performing simple deletion (without the usage of short keys), the document or folder on which delete operation is performed does not gets stored in the system’s Recycle Bin or Trash. User must use a reliable and robust recovery toolkit.

Cut / Paste Operation-

When we want to move some folder or certain precious files from computer to the external device or vice-versa, we may unintentionally hit the “Delete” button instead of “Paste” option. With one fast click the file vanishes into ether. Hence user must be careful with file transferring issues.

Data Loss: Data or file loss takes place from the external storage media only when the drive is accidentally formatted or it gets worn out and damaged due to over usage.

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Accidental Format-

This is when we unawarely format a wrong drive instead of some other drive. This result into severe data loss when the accidentally formatted drive is your storage device.

Bad Sectors-

Bad sectors are also known as bad spots. When your storage device gets worn out or it becomes aged because of being in used for long period, formation of bad spots takes place. Once bad sectors are formed the data stored into the device becomes inaccessible and refuses to mount up thereby leads to loss of digital files.

Installation Guideline-

Step 1: The first thing user needs to do is launch the software on thier Windows or Mac computers and then from the main screen select the option 'Recover File' and proceed further. Since it is an external device restoration process hence the device should be connected to the system's USB port.

Step 2: In the second screen, user needs to select any one of the two option. To recover deleted / lost files from WD Passport devices user needs to select either of the option 'Recover Deleted Files / Recover Lost Files' based on their scenario.

Step 3: Here user needs to select the drive from which they want to recover the deleted or lost files and folders. Once the drive is selected, a rigorous scan runs to search for the files.

Step 4: User has the option to preview the recovered files and then save the retrieved data in a new destination folder once they are satisfied with the recovery process.

WD App is an application for Windows 10 and Windows 8 that reads media from a WD drive and categorizes it into Photos, Music and Videos for easy access. The app is available through the App Store in Windows 8 and automatically installs when a compatible WD drive is plugged into a Windows 8 computer.

Installing

Note:
The steps below are used to install WD App in a Windows 10 or Windows 8 system manually. Alternatively, the app can be installed by connecting a WD hard drive to the system.

Operating System
Instructions
Windows 10Click here for Instructions
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Windows 8Click here for Instructions
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In order to install WD App in a Windows 10 or 8 system, please select an Operating System (OS) from the table below to display instructions for your specific OS.

Windows 10

  1. Click on the Search button and while on the search, type store and select it.
  2. While on the Store, type WD on the search bar. From the resulting list, select the WD app.
  3. The WD app Overview, Details and Reviews will open up, providing information about the application. Click on Free or Install to proceed.
  4. Microsoft account credentials may be requested in order to proceed with the app installation. Choose an account and enter a valid username and password, then click on Save.
  5. Click on Free or Install once again to download and install the app. Once complete, click on theOpen button to proceed to the End User License Agreement.
  6. Once installed, running WD app will prompt a Welcome screen. Click on Continue to accept the app privacy policy, terms and conditions. Now the application can be used.


Windows 8

  1. Go to the Start Screen (formerly known as Metro Start Screen).
  2. While on the Start Screen, type wd and select the option for Store, so the search scans the Windows app store instead of apps or files in the local system. From the resulting list, select the WD app.
  3. The WD App Overview, Details and Reviews will open up, providing information about the application. Click on Install to proceed.
  4. Microsoft account credentials may be requested in order to proceed with the app installation. Enter a valid username and password, then click on Save.
  5. The application will install itself, and a notification will appear on the top left corner of the screen when the installation is completed. The WD App's icon will now appear in the Start Screen.
  6. Once installed, running WD App will prompt a Welcome! screen. Click on Continue to accept the app privacy policy, terms and conditions. Now the application can be used.

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