Hey Everyone I’ve had my passport for a while now (think if I remember rightly its a 250gb one) used it first on a Mac Powerbook G4 as my itunes folder became too big for the hard disk on it (unfortunately when I lent it to family it had its power cable snapped inside it and in these times of belt tightening with apple prices I can’t afford to get it fixed!!) and have since a few months ago used it to get some files off a Windows XP running PC for my family. Tonight I found a major problem I’ve got a new PC (well new to me its a cast off from an uncle a bit retro by 2011 standards as its got an AMD duron processor, a voodoo graphics card, along with a soundblaster 1024!!
But it suits me fine for what I’m using it for (flightsim, net browsing and hopefully itunes updating should I get my passport working!!) so tonight I plugged it in and it came on as above an ‘Initio Default Controller’ It runs XP by the way so I thought it would have just plugged and played Is there an easy fix for it or do I have now an expensive paperweight Thanks in advance!! I am having this problem as well. I just got this drive yesterday, I ran through the installs for the WD Smartdrive stuff and assigned a password for my encryption.
I clicked update inside the Smart Drive, downloaded the update, ran the install, it restarted my system and the update had not been installed and the HDD no longer shows up. The drive keeps installing the Initio Default Controller.
I’ve tried it on another computer and it does the same thing. I’ve tried manually picking the latest SES drivers that I downloaded from the website, but they do not work.
The drive does not show up in Disk management, so I can’t reformat it. I’ve spent about 7 hours looking on the internet for solutions, the only ones that seemed to have fixes are unrelated flukes of usb power.