#Formatting A My Passport Mac Can Be

Formatting A My Passport Mac Can Be

Your newly formatted WD My Passport drive icon should show up on your desktop.Yet setting up a backup of your Mac can be frustrating since most external hard drives must be formatted before being used. Dismiss your Disk Utility screen. Once YouвЂ™ve Done Your Formatting. Or perhaps a minute or two depending on the size of your WD My Passport drive. YouвЂ™ll find the formatting takes a few seconds. The formatting of your My Passport external hard drive then starts.

Open Disk Utility (yes again, if you want other recovery software you may choose to use Disk Warrior or a deleted data recovery application). However if there's enough data left the operating system can correct these errors. (Or Unmount and then try remounting it).Some logical volumes (partitions (file systems)) become corrupt during plug and play or electrostatic phenomena. Expand the Western Digital My Book drive on the left side and right click on the partition you wish to mount, select Mount.

Choose the appropriate file system format: If you only plan to use to drive on Mac Computers then select one of the Apple Journaling options, if you plan to read and write the drive using anything other than Mac OS devices, I suggest ExFAT.Please Note that there are GUI differences between Mac OS 10.0-10.10 and 10.11-Current (10.13 as of writing this). Right click on the drive or any of the partitions and select erase. Open Disk Utility, an application you can find by typing 'Disk Utility' after pressing CMD+SpaceBar (or br clicking on your spotlight icon, a magnifying glass in the top right of the screen). Consider doing the same for any partitions you can access.

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