WD Passport won't mount on my Mac

[jennypig]

My WD Passport will not mount on my mac because I pulled it out without ejecting it properly. I plugged it into my other mac and found the data. I am copying the data now. In order to get this to work on MY mac again...do I need to open the disk utility and "erase" it? I saw that on some other forum. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
jenny

PS. Looks like the hubby's mac has no room for the data dump. It's an airbook so I can't even burn discs. Sigh. 🙁

Maybe I can dump data on my work computer and then reformat it?

Any suggestions? Take this hard drive to a local shop? I think I'm techy enough to fix this if someone will help me.

Thanks,

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Reformatting it should do the trick.

As regards recovering the existing data from it first, you'll need to do that on a Mac since a Windows PC won't recognise a MacOS partition.

 

[jennypig]

Thank you so much.