• Wd My Book Troubleshooting

If the system is running Mac OSX, follow the instructions under the first choice below. If running Windows, however, follow the instructions based on the drive size: • When the scanning process comes to an end, there will be a drop down menu listing a WD external drive under Drive to format. This is the screen displayed when the drive is 2TB in size or less. Click on the drop down menu to view and/or select different external drives from the list, should there be additional drives connected to the system. Version history office for mac. When ready, click on Format Drive. • On a Windows system and if the drive is greater than 2TB, the screen below will be displayed.

Wd My Book Troubleshooting

After reading the warning, click Continue to move to the next screen. • Click on Accept to accept the End User License Agreement. • Next, the application will scan for WD external drives to be formatted. • Depending on the size of the drive and the, one of two screens will appear. If the system is running Mac OSX, follow the instructions under the first choice below. If running Windows, however, follow the instructions based on the drive size: • When the scanning process comes to an end, there will be a drop down menu listing a WD external drive under Drive to format.

WD MYBOOK FOR MAC format for Windows 8.1. Solved need to reformat WD My Book essential from PC format to MAC; solved My WD 1 TB External HDD is not being recognized by Windows and Mac. Just got the WD MyBook 2TB. It's not the one specifically for Mac. It says it is compatible, needs to reformat. How easy is it to reformat?

I've tried several different times and nothing is working. I've even tried to just format it using the 'current' volume scheme but that gives me an error.something about partition failed.permission denied. At this point I'd be happy with just formatting the drive so I can just drag the files I want off onto it.but I can't seem to find any solutions. I took the drive to a Windows XP machine I have and tried to format it from NTFS to Fat32, thinking maybe the Mac would work with it then but my XP machine won't format into Fat32.only EXFat. Tried that but the Mac wouldn't even show the drive then. Have reformatted it back to NTFS now. I'm probably going to end up calling Mac support again but they're closed now I'm just curious to see what you folks might be able to come up with.

Thanks for these instructions; they are useful but I'm still stuck with the final steps, i.e. I see that there are several format options as follows: MacOS Extended (Journaled) MacOS Extended (Journaled Encrypted) MacOS Extended (Case Sensitive Journaled) MacOS Extended (Case Sensitive Journaled Encrypted) Then there is also the Scheme to choose from: GUID Partition Map Master Boot Record Apple Partition Map And finally there are some security options: Fastest vs.

Samsung device drivers for mac. Step Open the drop-down menu under 'Volume Scheme' and choose '1'. Step Press the 'Options' button, choose 'GUID Partition Table' and then click 'OK'. If you are using an older Mac with a PowerPC processor, choose the 'Apple Partition Map' option instead.