My passport

Hello

I was wondering if someone can please help nicely.

I plugged my hard drive on my Mac (Pro) and the time machine was about to save, as planned and as usual. My Finder showed the WD Smartware and My Passport. The backup failed because there is not enough space, now "My Passport" has disappeared. So I can't back up and the Time Machine is waiting for my passport to be connected in order to safeguard. I disconnected and reconnected (as well as restart the Mac) hard drive a few times and every time the Smartware DW is being picked up and My Passport is gone.

Usually, when I don't have enough space, time machine has been automatically deleted history.

Any ideas on how to get my passport back?

Thank you very much!!

Disk utility say the disk?

Post a screenshot would be nice

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