

Please Note that there are GUI differences between Mac OS 10.0-10.10 and 10.11-Current (10.13 as of writing this). 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.

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.Open the Disk Utility app located in /EXAMPLE-HDD/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app or by pressing CMD+SpaceBar and typing "Disk Utility" or by manually clicking on the Spotlight Icon in the top right (magnifying glass icon) and typing "Disk Utility", or by opening your LaunchPad and locating Disk Utility.The external drive should be automatically detected and will prompt you to format the drive or keep it as a device used to store only photos, video and music.

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Ext 1-2-3-4 are all read and writeable by the majority of Linux operating systems, FAT32-ExFAT-NTFS-ReFHS are all read and writeable by most Microsoft Windows operating systems. WD My Passport for Mac Review 2TB USB 3 External Hard Drive Duration: WD My Passport Wireless Pro Hard Drive & Plex How to Back Up Your Windows 10 PC to an External Hard Drive. If there is data on the drive but your Mac device cannot read it even after attempting to manually mount the drive partitions, then I recommend plugging the drive into a computer with support for the file system being used on those partitions. I recommend you try mounting any partitions first. With the limited information you have presented, formatting drives with Mac OS 10.0 (2001) to the newest version 10.13 (Dec 2017) has always been the same.
