I'm installing now El Capitan, maybe is working with it. To Format Your WD Elements With A Partition For Mac And PC 1. Make sure Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is selected in the Format menu. The same result.Ī solution to the problem will be welcomed. Optional: If you want to partition the disk, click the Partition tab and select a layout. Select the WD portable hard drive that you want format and click on the Erase option. Click Go on the top tool bar > Utilities > Disk Utility. The same result, I tried both with exFAT and FAT. Format WD portable hard drive with Disk Utility 1. All is ok till step 8 after that Disk Utility opens a message that says that the disk can't be formatted, without other explanations. The explanations on the links work fine with 1TB and 2TB WD HDDs but not with the 4TB version. Let me know if you need further assistance! However, the latter file system has some limitations, you can check those here:
#FORMATTING WD PORTABLE HDD FOR MAC HOW TO#
Here's another tutorial that explains how to do that: If you have Windows computers as well and would like to access (read and write to) the external from both operating systems, then you'd need to use the exFAT/FAT32 file system. Here's a tutorial that can help you with that: It has pretty much every bit of information I really hold dear, and on any mac computer I can find everything on it. So I have a My Passport drive that I had back before my mac computer killed itself. They offer high capacity storage, universal connectivity and are also compatible with USB 3.0 and 2.0. If you plan to use the external only on Mac OS computers, you can simply change the file system to HFS+ and reformat the drive. Western Digital (WD) portable hard drives are really helpful. However, keep in mind that if you have any data saved onto it, it will be erased. You can easily change that by re-formatting the drive. My guess is it's formatted in NTFS and that's why it turns up as read-only on your Mac. Can you tell me the model of the external drive though? You can check the product page of the drive on our website and see if it comes pre-formatted for Windows OS or Mac OS X. I'm sorry to hear about your problems with your brand new WD external.
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