Dochog said:Has anyone ever had any issues with WD My Passport Essential hard drives? I have a 320GB & a 500GB. Both Fat formatted. I tried to add to the drive thru my computer and I get a drive not formatted error. I have been able to recover the files and reformat but it is a very long process. This has happened to both my drives now. Has this happened to anyone else? I liked these drives since they had no power cord but I think I will just stick to the My Book that I have. Had no issues with it. I think from now on I will stop and "eject" my portable drives before disconnecting them from the computer.
I'm using a My Passport 500 GB. Don't remember for sure, but I think I too had trouble getting it to FAT32 format correctly in Windows. I believe I ended up downloading a Live CD of Ubuntu and formatting the drive through Ubuntu instead.