This article explains how to map a USB drive that is connected to a My Cloud, Mirror, EX2 or EX4, or My Book Live Duo device on Mac OSX.END The My Cloud Storage devices and device can have a USB drive connected to them through the back USB port on the units. This can be used to connect an external USB hard drive, a flash drive or a camera. This enables multiple functionalities, such as the USB drive serving as a target for backups with Time Machine and also a Safepoint or USB Backup to the WD Network Attached Storage itself. For instructions on how to assign a drive letter to the connected USB drive to map it as a network share, please follow the instructions below:. On the Mac computer's top toolbar, click on Go. From the drop-down menu, click on Connect to Server. On the Connect to Server panel, under Server Address type smb://wdmycloud or smb://wdmycloud.local, and click on Connect.
This allowed me to assign a drive number to an old mac HDD that I had pulled from a broken 2008 macbook pro. My windows system was refusing to display the. Download software or documentation for a Matrox product. Show legacy products - Please select a product - Convert DVI Convert DVI Plus Monarch HD Monarch HDX Monarch LCS MPEG-2 I-frame Codec VFW Software Codecs VS4.
Note: Alternatively, users may use the Apple File Protocol (AFP) to connect to the network drive by typing afp://wdmycloud or afp://wdmycloud.local. Now, the will request for credentials to be provided to measure the permissions of a particular user to the network drive. Users with accounts already created can use those credentials.
Otherwise, click on Guest. Once ready, click on Connect. A list of the available Shares or Volumes will be displayed. Select the external hard drive that is connected to the My Cloud and click on Ok. The process is complete and now the external drive will be successfully displayed on the desktop.
Hard drive missing from your computer? Hard drive not showing up in computer? Hard drive not visible? Hard drive not detected? - Here's the solution. This video can help: Hard Drive Not Showing Up In Computer How to fix it (All versions of Windows) This will work for Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, 10 and others.
I am sure you are using one of these. It might be same for XP also. If you are an XP user.
Please do try and let me know the results. All Hard drives which gets installed in the computer are listed under computer and there are only two reasons why it won't. Hardware issue (connectivity issue with the hard drive due to faulty cables, faulty port or simply a faulty hard drive) 2. Software issue (This is what we will solve now) So first click on start-right click computer-manage-this will open computer management In comp. Management please click on disc management and this will list all hard drives cd drives connected with the computer. Here you will see a drive named un-allocated means without a drive letter like C, D, E etc. This is the drive you need and which is not listed under computer.
Right click on it. Then click on New Simple Volume This as you can see will open New Simple volume wizard cick on next Next screen shows the size of the drive which we don't need to change so click on next and then select the drive letter It can be anything from D, E, F to Z. But not the ones already taken So we will name this one D and continue In the next screen it gives us the option to format or not format We will select to format it Below it says volume label which is nothing but the name of your new hard drive. I am naming it Internal drive Click on next and this window shows all the settings of this drive like size, format etc.
Click on Finish and thats it. All done Now it will automatically ask you to open the new hard drive. It's empty and ready to use And when you open computer now, It will show you your missing hard drive with the name and drive letter you gave it. Thanks for watching and do let me know if this helped you.
Don't forget to like and comment. And please subscribe for more useful and informational videos. The BG music is Royalty Free, please find details below: BG music name: Bubble G-Funk Electro Youtube channel: Song info and download link.