WD Passport separate hard drive problem

[Chrissie Smiff]

I wonder if anyone can suggest what the problem is please. My WD Passport hard drive comes up fine on hubby's laptop and his computer as Passport in F drive, the same as it has always done on my laptop. However, I haven't plugged it in to mine for a while and when I tried this morning it is recognising it as a CD and refusing to open it. Any suggestions welcomed but I have to dash now, so not ignoring anyone.

[Anne in Carlisle]

Have you tried a different USB slot? Some of my devices only work on some of them
Anne

[Chrissie Smiff]

Thank you for the suggestion Anne, and I did try a different slot. The thing is though that it does recognise it but as a Disc! My hubby also has a WD Passport and his came up fine for me. So we have spent most of the day trying to sort it out. He copied everything from mine to his, then we formatted mine. It still only comes up as a Disc though and won't let me do anything with it, so I think hubby has decided to move his stuff on to mine and put my stuff on his.
It's the weirdest thing to happen to me yet, and believe me I am no stranger to weird things happening to my computer lol

[Guest]

Chrissie seems its a common problem look here

http://ccm.net/forum/affich-782323-western-digital-my-passport-ultra-change-to-cd-drive

[Chrissie Smiff]

Thanks Val, I am reading it now

[Chrissie Smiff]

Hubby has found a couple of old spare ones that work in my computer, so he is using mine and I now have two lol