

It may not be set up to show you your external drive on your Mac’s desktop. You’ll find it called Preferences in earlier Mac releases. Your Finder Settings (from Mac OS Ventura). But when it’s the first time that you’ve put an external drive on your Mac it may not be set up for you to see it right away.

MacOS (your Mac operating system) will mount a plugged in drive automatically. Your Passport WD Hard Drive Mounting First Time On Mac Or it’s a complete mystery why your Passport external hard drive suddenly isn’t mounting. Something happened like you forgot to Eject the drive. The second is where you’ve had your WD drive working fine on your Mac. The first is where you’ve never put an external hard drive on your Mac before. You’ll find two types of scenarios worked through here.
