- #FORMAT WD ELEMENT FOR MAC ERROR NOW DONT WORK INSTALL#
- #FORMAT WD ELEMENT FOR MAC ERROR NOW DONT WORK SOFTWARE#
- #FORMAT WD ELEMENT FOR MAC ERROR NOW DONT WORK WINDOWS#
#FORMAT WD ELEMENT FOR MAC ERROR NOW DONT WORK SOFTWARE#
But after having to download software so that I could get it formatted into Fat32 (My XP machine only gave me the option of ExFat), it still wouldn't work. The Mac support guy I spoke to thought that if I could get the drive formatted into Fat32 it should be able to be reformatted by my Mac. If it causes a problem I'll look into that link you suggested.
#FORMAT WD ELEMENT FOR MAC ERROR NOW DONT WORK INSTALL#
The drive I ordered does have that software on it, but since I have no fancy plans for this drive other than just backing up files with Time Machine I'll probably just install their software and be happy if it works. After tech support at both Western Digital and Apple said they'd never heard of this before, I'm returning the drive and buying one that's preformatted for Apple. Didn't see any files on the drive at all. The drive I have been having problems doesn't say anywhere on it that it has that Smartware software on it. Good thing I shave my head as I'd have probably ripped it all out by now.ĭen.thed.that's interesting. 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. Tried that but the Mac wouldn't even show the drive then.
#FORMAT WD ELEMENT FOR MAC ERROR NOW DONT WORK WINDOWS#
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. 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.Īt 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've tried several different times and nothing is working.
So I'm unable to click apply to make the changes. I've gone through the steps found in this forum, and they're the same steps the rep walked me through with the first drive: launch Disc Utility, select the drive, click Partition, give the volume a name, click options to choose GUID Partition Table, and then under Volume Scheme: choose Partition 1, click apply.īut what happens with this drive is the minute I change the Volume Scheme from "current" to "partition 1", all the options and buttons go grey. Unfortunately I purchased a drive that is formatted for windows (NTFS). But I cannot for the life of me get anything to work. So I purchased a WD Elements 1 TB external HD and want to do the same thing that I did with other drive.install the operating system on it and pull all the data off the original computer HD to it. But I've run out of space it was only 120GB and I've got about 144 GB of data left to retrieve. This has worked great and I'm currently working off that drive and have managed to pull a lot of my data off the IMac's HD to that external drive. To save my data the rep walked me through installing the OS on an external HD. Spoke with Apple support and they decided my OS had become corrupted and that the only solution was a complete reinstall. My IMac died on me the other day and would not reboot. I've searched the forums for this and have seen several questions addressing this but none of the solutions are working for me.
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