Sorry, I'm sure this is like nails on a chalkboard to some reading this. Format your Western Digital My Passport external hard drive to FAT32 or ex-FAT format so to transfer the data between a Mac and Windows system conveniently. About Your WD Drive My Passport for Mac User Manual 2.
I am happy to provide any additional useful information or more detailed re-telling of my mistake laden adventure. If you want to use the drive with a Windows computer, see Reformatting the Drive and Troubleshooting. Here's a picture of the drive information. Acronis True Image for Western Digital to back up their drives.) WD SmartWare (Support for WD SmartWare has ended. It won't work, it's unmounted, and when I move to erase the drive again (because two wrongs make a right?), I get an error that says "MediaKit reports not enough space on device for requested operation." In my fury to fix it, I also tried to partition the drive, which failed. A NEW SMART PERSONAL CONTENT APP: Be among the first to try the EdgeRover desktop app WD Backup (Support for WD Backup has ended. Well now, of course, I realize that did NOT know what I was doing, that I should've installed the WD software that would have let me unlock the drive and use it, and I'm full of regret.īecause now, after erasing it-I have no idea what to do. I'm not sure because it will not mount on my desktop. The WD Passport for Mac is one of several drives that I use for backup on my MacBook Pro, so I do not need to.
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Because I had convinced myself I knew what I was doing Question: Q: How to reformat WD Passport for Mac I am running 10.9.5 on a MacBook Pro - 15-inch, Mid 2012. Well, it didn't work, and so I googled why, and some commenter somewhere said to reformat the drive as a Mac extended Journal.and so I opened up disk utility and proceeded to erase the drive.
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There are all kinds of reasons why you might want to format a storage drive for your Mac - from cleaning it up for a fresh install of OS X to creating an encrypted drive for work. Any help would be greatly appreciated!Īfter buying My Passport, I plugged it into my Macbook Pro w/retina (running High Sierra, 10.13.2), ignored the software that came on the drive (I know, stupid) and immediately moved to use the drive as a time machine backup. I explain how to format a storage device for your Mac. I consider myself technologically literate, but perhaps after today, that needs to be re-evaluated. I'm in a rush to complete a work project, and the stress led me to make the below dumb mistakes. A series of poor decisions led me to a lot of frustration and hard drive I can't access.
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