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My wd passport is not unrecognized,the light keep flashing but not blinking,it just work fine yesterday and today the problem come,please help me. Flashing lights on an older WD My Book or My Passport. What do the blinking or flashing lights on the WD My Book and My Passport drives mean? Power/Activity LED Behavior for the My Book World Edition drive. Program can be installed by accessing the WD My Book external hard drive or the installation CD and the clicking on the Mac folder.

This is a fairly new hard drive with over 500 gb free space. Windows does not seem to recognize it although, It shows up under device and printers. But it's absent in disk management. The external lights are constantly flashing but in a systematic manner it stops blinking and stay on for a while before restarting the whole process. They're no clicking sounds.
So far I have tried changing the cable, changing the port and trying on another PC but same thing.
Incidentally, this is the third WD Passport. Both of my previous hard drive decided to stop working abruptly and they were fairly new as well. I lost a lot of data both times and I dread this is about to happen again. At this point i'm so furious at WD, I would literally work there and yell at them if I
loved near to their HQ
Edit: It's now showing up under device manager - Disk drives. Still, it's not showing up in my computer nor Disk management.

Power/Activity LED Behavior for the My Book World Edition drive:

Appearance	Drive State
Power On Sequence
Bottom LED Dimmed	Powering up
LEDs light up in sequence from bottom to top	Transitioning to drive ready
Normal Operation
Capacity Gauge, steady illumination	Power-on state, ready for use
Moving up and down	Drive in use
Slow flashing (every four seconds)	System standby
Power Down Sequence
Dimming up/dimming down in an odd/even alternatingpattern	Drive powering down
Device Events
Bottom LED dimmed, top LED flashing	Boot unsuccessful
Fast flashing (every half second)	My Book system event, action required
Continuous “center out” sweep pattern	Unit failure

Capacity Gauge:
When the device is turned on, the Capacity Gauge indicates space used on the drive by fully illuminating six sections in an upward vertical direction. Each section represents approximately 17 percent of drive capacity. Because this drive is preformatted, the first section is illuminated upon installation.

Power/Activity LED Functionality for My Book Studio II, My Book Mirror Edition:

Appearance	Description
Steady	Power-on state or power-saver mode
Moving up and down	Drive in use
Slow flashing (every 4 seconds)	System standby
Alternating checkerboard pattern	Transitioning from one state to another
Alternate flashing between top and bottom LEDs	RAID Degraded Mode
Cycling from bottom to top	RAID rebuild mode
Fast Flashing (every 1 second)	Over-Temperature condition*

* If this condition occurs, read/write activity will stop and the drive will spin down. Disconnect and power down the drive. Allow it to cool down for 1-2 hours and then reconnect and power up the device.

Capacity Gauge:
Because the WD My Book external hard drives are preformatted and contain software and utilities, the first section is illuminated upon installation. The Capacity Gauge is enabled only when the WD Drive Manager program is installed and running on the computer system.

For Macintosh, the WD Drive Manager program can be installed by accessing the WD My Book external hard drive or the installation CD and the clicking on the Mac folder, select the language of your choice, then double-click on the WD Button Manager Software disk image that contains the installer.

For Windows, the autorun menu appears only on the first installation of the drive. If AutoPlay is disabled on your computer or if you are connecting the WD My Book external drive to another computer, you must install the utilities manually. Open up the WD My Book external hard drive or installation CD from My Computer or Windows Explorer. Double-click on the My Book folder, the WD_Windows_Tools folder, and then Setup or Setup.exe.

Power/Activity LED Functionality for MyBook Essential 2.0, Home, Office, Studio:

Appearance	Description
Steady	Power-on state or power-saver mode
Fast flashing (for approx. 3 seconds)	Transitioning to system standby or power down
Slow flashing (every 5 seconds)	System standby
Up and down (excluding Essential 2.0)	Drive in use

Capacity Gauge:
Because the WD My Book external hard drives are preformatted and contain software and utilities, the first section is illuminated upon installation. The Capacity Gauge is enabled only when the WD Button Manager program is installed and running on the computer system.

For Macintosh, the WD Button Manager program can be installed by accessing the WD My Book external hard drive and the clicking on the Mac folder, select the language of your choice, then double-click on the WD Button Manager Software disk image that contains the installer.

For Windows, the autorun menu appears only on the first installation of the drive. If AutoPlay is disabled on your computer or if you are connecting the WD My Book external drive to another computer, you must install the utilities manually. Open up the WD My Book external hard drive from My Computer or Windows Explorer. Double-click on the My Book folder, the WD_Windows_Tools folder, and then Setup or Setup.exe.

Power/Activity LED Functionality for MyBook Essential, Pro, Pro II, Premium, Premium II, World, World II:
The Power/Activity and Capacity Gauge LEDs are two concentric rings on the front panel of the WD My Book external hard drive. The outer ring is the Power/Activity LED and the inner ring is the Capacity Gauge LED.

Appearance	Description
Steady	Power-on state or power-saver mode
Fast flashing (for approx. 3 seconds)	Transitioning to system standby or power down
Slow flashing (every 5 seconds)	System standby
Rotating clockwise	Drive in use
Alternate flashing between inner and outer rings	RAID Degraded Mode
Rotating inner ring which increments progressively	RAID rebuild mode
Simultaneous flashing of both inner and outer LED rings	Device is overheating: Shut down the My Book device

Capacity Gauge:
The Capacity Gauge (inner ring) consists of six sections which will illuminate in a clockwise direction to indicate space used on the My Book external drive. Each section represents approximately 17 percent of disk space. Because the WD My Book external hard drives are preformatted and contain software and utilities, the first section is illuminated upon installation. The Capacity Gauge is enabled only when the WD Button Manager program is installed and running on the computer system.

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For Windows, the autorun menu appears only on the first installation of the drive. If AutoPlay is disabled on your computer or if you are connecting the WD My Book external drive to another computer, you must install the utilities manually. Open up the WD My Book external hard drive from My Computer or Windows Explorer. Double-click on the My Book folder, the WD_Windows_Tools folder, and then Setup or Setup.exe.

Power/Activity LED Functionality for My Passport Elite and My Passport Studio:
The power/activity and capacity gauge indicators are represented by four LEDs underneath the sliding port cover as shown below. Only one LED illuminates at a time corresponding to drive capacity used.

Appearance	Description
Steady	Power-on state or power-saver mode
Slow Flashing	Drive Standby
Alternating left to right then right to left	Drive In Use