Windows 10: What the HELL? Windows 11 murdered my WD Passport drive!

I just upgraded my Windows 10 desktop to Windows 11...only to discover that something went horribly wrong: The 2TB NTFS USB My Passport Drive P drive had vanished, replaced by an impossibly large drive with three partitions, a 32GB FAT32, and two unallocated partitions totaling 4TB physically impossible.Is there some way that I may restore this drive to its original state? I did not tell Windows to do this! It didn't even ask me if I wanted the drive reformatted; it just did it all on its own, transparently, hiding what it was doing from me! I lost almost two terabytes of data!

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My WD Passport external hard drive won't open

My WD Passport external hard drive won't open. It's listed in device manager and in the properties is listed as "working properly".

 

WD Passport Drive with Windows 10

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A driver for WD passport compatible with windows 10

Hi Donna,



Welcome to Microsoft Community and thank you for posting your query.



Let’s try installing the WD passport driver in compatibility mode and check if this helps. I suggest you to install the drivers supplied by the manufacturer any disc or USB which came along with the WD passport drive.

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  Right-click on the setup file of the driver and select Properties.
  
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  Select Compatibility tab.
  
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  Check Run this program in Compatibility mode.
  
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  Let the driver install and then check the functionality.
  

You can also visit the below link and try updating the driver and check.

http://www.wdc.com/en/



If the issue still persist, I recommend you to contact WD passport team for further assistance.

http://support.wdc.com/?lang=en



Hope this helps. Keep posting us with the status we will be glad to help you.