Western Digital My Passport Essential Format For Mac

Will the Mac-formatted Passport disk be readable by my WD TV? My WD TV is capable of playing the programs recorded with my eyeTV, but my Passport disk was formatted with NTFS (from less happier days) and I can copy the movies from my Mac to the disk. As FAT32 has some limitation on the disk size (or the formatting programs on my XP have that limitation) I though of going straight to the mac native disk format.

1. Western Digital My Passport Essential Format For Mac And Pc
2. Western Digital My Passport Essential Format For Mac 1tb

But I am not sure my WD TV will read the WD Passport disk when it is mac-formatted. Asked by fn from Xxxxxxx. Nov 21, 2009.

Western Digital My Passport Essential Format For Mac And Pc

As of 2018, Western Digital offers no curtailment of alien drives for Mac computers – from the My Book Essential to the My Book Pro and the My Book Studio, about 30 WD drives comedy accurately with Apple’s macOS operating system, as does the My Passport Studio model. Format WD My Passport for Mac 10 Quick Steps. These instructions are for the release of Mac OS Sierra. For earlier releases of the Mac OS the instructions are the same except the screens may look slightly different. One thing before I take you through the steps of how to format your WD My Passport for Mac. I just bought the WD My Passport Essential SE 750 GB/Go. I went to install in on my MacBook and when I clicked on the WD SmartWare CD the message came up that that SmartWare Drive is unreadable.

Product: WD My Passport Ultra 1TB Operating Systems: Mac & Linux I recently used my WD Passport for a linux system. I formatted this drive in linux to ext4. Now I want to use this drive for my mac again but am having problems formatting this drive using disk utility to hfs. For some reason I can read/write and format this drive fine on linux.

Western Digital My Passport Essential Format For Mac 1tb

Also when viewing this drive in Disk Utility there are multiple instances of this drive. Unmounting disk Creating the partition map Waiting for partitions to activate Formatting disk5s1 as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with name Untitled newfshfs: WriteBuffer: pwrite(3, 0x104ae4000, 1048576, 331354112): Input/output error newfshfs: write (sector 647176): Invalid argument Mounting disk Could not mount disk5s1 after erase EDIT #1 Palaeologus helped me find a solution to formatting the drive. Sudo su diskutil list cat /dev/random /dev/diskX Look for the drive and replace X with drive number. Then format drive as FAT.

Diskutil eraseVolume ExFAT MyName diskX Once again replace X with disk number. The drive is now assessable. However I can only format the drive to FAT and not JHFS, formatting to JHFS returns the same error as described at the top of the post.