Access is denied.īesides the exact error messages, when you check the drive's status, you may see other different signs.
Meanwhile, you'll receive error messages like: The typical symptoms are, the power LED is on but the drive is not accessible. If you're one of the Western Digital hard drive customers and happen to use the My Passport type, you must be interested in this post. A commonly seen issue with Western Digital My Passport hard drives is that sometimes, you cannot access the drive's data. It seems that I can't access the WD external hard drive nor my data without formatting, can anyone help?' I tried to eject the drive and reconnected it for the second time, but the error is still there. I wouldn't do that because data is still there.
'When I connected my 1TB WD My Passport external hard drive to my desktop, Windows 10 prompts me with an error message saying you need to format the disk before you can use it.
