LRC, "edit in PS" option does not work with New WD passport hardrive.

Perhaps this has nothing to do with your drive, but with denoising. Maybe you tried a denoised image from the WD drive, and a not-denoised image from the older drive? This Photoshop problem is a known issue:

https://community.adobe.com/bug-reports-711/p-photoshop-27-10-edit-in-photoshop-from-lightroom-classic-does-not-load-image-1639250?tid=1639250&postid=7745403

A few quick questions:

What is your OS and what release?

Have you given the new WD Passport permssion from your OS?

Does your LRC know about the new HD? What I mean by this, how did you get LRC content onto the new drive?

Let me provide a video that goes to the heart of this question PLEASE NOTE: There is some sort of squabble between YouTube and these forums. Below is a link, copy the full link and paste it into something where you can remove the space between “…you & tube…”

https://www.you tube.com/watch?v=_9B0lq6GJZc

Let us know…