I guess the policy of WD to be “innovative” has been pushed a little too far by abandoning established (and proven!) standards in favor of trying to bond their customers to WD-specific cables.Īlthough I was usually very staisfied with WD my personal consequences in this matter are to not buy any more WD products until the issue is resolved or there is an option to decide between products with regular Mini USB and WD-USB plug & cable.

It is important to address this issue to WD as a community because we aren’t the only ones who struggle with this new plug. UpBright New Micro USB 2.0 Data Cable Replacement for Western Digital WD My Passport SE Mac Hard Drive 1TB 1.5TB / 2TB Laptop Notebook PC Data Sync Cord (NOT USB 3.0 Cable) 9 499 5. Step 3 After the scan, you can check all recovered files. Step 2 Then the hard disk data recovery software will start scanning the device to searching the lost data within minutes. It’s imcompatible with the standard Mini USB cables. How do I fix a corrupted WD Passport external hard drive How to Recover Data from WD Passport External Hard Drive Step 1 Launch Recoverit Data Recovery program.It’s hyper-sensitive to any movement on the calbe (and hence bad for the HDD inside when it regularily gets disconnected on a whim every so often) USB 3.0 Cable, QCEs USB 3.0 A Male to Micro B Cable 3.

Compatible with most USB 3.0 external portable and desktop hard drives.

It’s smaller (but what for? Even the Passsport is not that small that the plug would make a difference) Top Quality Micro USB 3.0 Cable A to Micro B Cable.It’s not the cable it’s the the whole idea of the WD USB plug/cable that’s so frustrating:

Wd my passport replacement cable