Sep 20, 2016 - Clearly, I don't know what I'm doing with this external drive. First thing I did was use the Time Machine app to back up my machine to My. Dec 30, 2014 - Before I could eject the 'Western Digital My Book For Mac' I had to. I have a WD USB 3 external Passport I use for CCC backup and it will.

I returned a WD My Passport Ultra HD because I couldn't access all the info on it and my laptop wouldn't recognise the drivers. This was the first time I'd tried to use it since using it to backup my files. They have sent me a brand new one (lost all the info from the old one of course) and I just installed it, but when I wanted to remove it (it's still empty) there was no eject button, so I just had to pull the USB plug. Is that normal and the eject button isn't there on a portable hard drive, or does the eject button only appear after info has been stored? Assuming by eject button, you are talking about the USB icon on the bottom right of your task bar?

When you plugged in the new drive by USB, did the computer recognise it? If it didn't, then you will have to initialize the drive through Disk Management. To get there, you need to get to Control Panel Administrative Tools Computer Management Disk Management. (I have put the long path here as it differs with different flavours of the windows operating systems on how to get there easily. In Disk Management you will see the new drive. Right click (on the left hand side of the disk) and click Initialize.

Follow the instructions and your disk will be workable. Assuming by eject button, you are talking about the USB icon on the bottom right of your task bar? When you plugged in the new drive by USB, did the computer recognise it? If it didn't, then you will have to initialize the drive through Disk Management. To get there, you need to get to Control Panel Administrative Tools Computer Management Disk Management. (I have put the long path here as it differs with different flavours of the windows operating systems on how to get there easily.

In Disk Management you will see the new drive. Right click (on the left hand side of the disk) and click Initialize. Follow the instructions and your disk will be workable. There's an easier way to get there. Just right click My Computer- manage and you can see disc management.

Then you might have to assign it a letter that Windows recognises it. Assuming by eject button, you are talking about the USB icon on the bottom right of your task bar? When you plugged in the new drive by USB, did the computer recognise it? If it didn't, then you will have to initialize the drive through Disk Management. To get there, you need to get to Control Panel Administrative Tools Computer Management Disk Management. (I have put the long path here as it differs with different flavours of the windows operating systems on how to get there easily. In Disk Management you will see the new drive.

Right click (on the left hand side of the disk) and click Initialize. Follow the instructions and your disk will be workable.

Ok, I found it. I was looking on the task bar the same place there is an eject button for my flash drives. You can also go to 'windows explorer' and right click on the drive, there's an 'Eject' button on the popup menu which appears after clicking. It's right under the 'format' link. It should be there regardless of whether you've written anything to the drive or not. This is my experience with Windows 7 Pro.

Different versions of windows might behave differently. With my Win 10 Pro at least the Eject icon under the format icon only appears for USB sticks, SD cards, or CD/DVDs; it won't appear for an external USB hard/SSD drive. Pretty durn sure same way when still on Win 10 Home. I just checked by inserting a CD, SD card, USB stick, and USB hard drive.the first 3 showed the Eject selection under the Format selection.but the USB hard drive did not show the Eject selection.have to use the Safety Remove Hardware/Eject icon in the task bar for the USB hard drive.

I'll check my other computer running Win 7 Home system later if I remember once I fire it up again but I think it's the same way as described above. You can also go to 'windows explorer' and right click on the drive, there's an 'Eject' button on the popup menu which appears after clicking. It's right under the 'format' link. It should be there regardless of whether you've written anything to the drive or not. This is my experience with Windows 7 Pro.