Hello, I have a My Passport Ultra which has been used on a Windows 7 upgraded to W 10 OS but i now own a Macbook Pro with High Sierra OS and want to store/process photos on both laptops. I have a 2TB external drive called 'WD My Passport for Mac' It's been over a year since I last used it on my iMac. Now, I am trying to use it on my MacBook Pro, and it lights up, its also recognized by my mac, I can see it on Disk Utility, but I can't open it. I have a 2TB external drive called 'WD My Passport for Mac' It's been over a year since I last used it on my iMac. Now, I am trying to use it on my MacBook Pro, and it lights up, its also recognized by my mac, I can see it on Disk Utility, but I can't open it. FAT32 will let you directly plug the drive into both windows and mac. But you are limited to an individual file size of 4GB mac OS extended will be readable only by macs but your files can be larger.

• Setting up encryption and a password to secure your My Passport hard drive. WD My Passport has 256-bit AES hardware encryption and password protection for the drive. The hardware encryption is controlled and managed via the WD Security software. The My Passport drive non Mac version does not come with a Mac version of the software however this can be downloaded direct from the Western Digital site. I personally prefer to use the facilities provided by Mac OS for encrypting my hard drive data and adding a password. Because, without the WD Security software installed and accessible by your Mac, you will not be able to access the data on the My Passport drive. If you are sharing the hard drive between Mac’s the software has to be loaded on that Mac as well.

Office home and student 2016 for 1 mac of isoflurane. So I don't know what fixed it exactly. Problem: When I plug my WD Passport Ultra 4TB external hard drive WDBBKD0040BBK-0A (with 2TB of family photos) into my MacBook Pro it has fast flashing of light and can't be mounted. It can be read on a Windows laptop (after Windows automatically fixed an error). I tried opening up Disk Utility on my Mac, but it just spins forever trying to mount the external hard drive. Nothing ever shows up on Disk Utility.

I don’t even know what I am meant to select in the drop down Format options (Mac OS Extended Journaled, etc) and Scheme (GUID Partition Map etc) and I have tried permeations and keep getting message after I click Erase (Erase Process has failed, click done to continue) I have wasted so much time on this and really need help. Can anyone give me simple steps to enable me to get started. I want to use My Passport for storing files, not backing up. I want to be able to drag and drop (or copy) files across from my Mac. Hi KentGirl, If you are using My Passport for mac then you don’t have to do anything, as it comes Pre-formatted in Mac OS Extended Journaled file system. Just plug in the drive and drag and drop the files in the drive But, if you are using My Passport which comes pre-formatted in NTFS files system which is compatible with Windows only, then you have to reformat the drive in Mac OS Extended Journaled file system in order to make it compatible with Mac, and the scheme would be GUID Partition Map. Also, if you want to use the drive with both Mac and Windows then you have to format the drive in exFAT file system, but if you format the drive in exFAT file system then you will not be able to use the Time Machine (Which is used to create the backup) in Mac.

File System Formats Don’t select. That file system is slow, old and has file size restrictions. These days it is really not a practical solution for sharing files between a Mac and a PC. The exception to this is some TV’s and Media players that ask for this format. If that is the case then you are better setting up a partition for sharing those files, rather than formatting the entire disk in this format. – • Once you have entered a name and selected a format, click on Erase and the formatting of the My Passport external hard drive will start.

FAT32 will let you directly plug the drive into both windows and mac. But you are limited to an individual file size of 4GB mac OS extended will be readable only by macs but your files can be larger. **there are ways to make the different file systems readable by the other type of computer, i'm referring to default OS capabilities. *** when sharing the drive over the network the format only matters to the computer the drive is physically plugged into.

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