Windows 10: CANNOT ACCESS WD Western Digital SES aka WD My Passport USB Device

I plugged in My Passport to save down video files externally for my work.The passport at first did not show up after a few hours of unplugging, updating, reinstalling and installing I finally have it under "Disk Drives". I have I believe updated the drivers, installed the device again and gone through WD to have it discoverable on my computer. Other than this location in Device Manager I cannot see the USB device anywhere.Please. Please. Please. It is a simple external memory device why must Windows make EVERYTHING impossibly accessible. Where can I find my device so that I can save these work

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Western Digital Technologies - Other hardware - WD SES Device - Error 0x8024a20a

Hi!

I got a surface pro 4 yesterday and insstalled that. but I want to update it I get this massage. How can I fix this problem?

Error:

Western Digital Technologies - Other hardware - WD SES Device - Error 0x8024a20a

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Western Digital Technologies - Other hardware - WD SES Device - Error 0x8024a20a

The SES driver is what allows you to have WD Smartware working, if you install the software then, the driver is going to install as well.

If you don't want to use Smartware , you won't need to install the driver and the drive will work fine anyways.

According to Western Digital:

The WD SES driver is not required for the drive to be recognized by a computer. If the OS is requesting a driver, please see Answer ID 1708: How to update the drivers built into Windows and macOS

https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.as...

 

Backup computer with MS WIn10 to WD Passport Essentail SE.

Hi All,

I have been using this WD Passport SE with my Dell laptop with Win 7 for two years. Now I upgraded to WIN 10

and the drive is not recognized. But the drive is recognized by another computer with Win. XP with out any problem.

Have reloaded the driver for the WD Passport. Now the machine sees the drive in the Devices screen, but cant access the

files. Any help is appreciated.