WD External Hard Drives

[thomamon]

So I have two WD External Hard Drives... One is a passport and one is a My Book. But for some reason, when I reboot my laptop, they never come up. I have to unplug them both from the USB and plug them back in to get them to be noticed.

I just updated the bios on each of them as well and that did not fix it.

Anything else I can do with this issue?

 

[kfergiez]

How often do you reboot your computer? I just shut the lid on mine, and my external is always there.

 

[thomamon]

How often do you reboot your computer? I just shut the lid on mine, and my external is always there.

Few times a week... I have Bootcamp on for the couple things I have to do in Windows

 

[snaky69]

I'd have to try with my external drive but I'm pretty certain this is normal behaviour.

 

[thomamon]

I'd have to try with my external drive but I'm pretty certain this is normal behaviour.

This is very frustrating. There is no work around?

 

[DewGuy1999]

My Western Digital My Passport Essential SE mounts on bootup with my MacBook Pro. You could try mounting them with either the Western Digital SmartWare or Disk Utility.