Western Digital External Hard Drive on Mac?
Posted on Nov 03, 2009 under Digital news and reports |I have a WD external hard drive that worked on my mac until earlier today where it wont even recognize that its plugged into the mac. I asked a friend of mine to transfer a bunch of stuff on it (he uses Windows 7) and he might have formatted it, but i’m not sure…how do i get it working again on my mac?
I just waited for about 10 mins and the thing recognized it…not sure why it took that long but as long as its working i’m happy. Thanks
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:33 am
Even if it was formatted for windows (ntfs or fat32), mac should still be able to read the file system.
Try turning off the mac and the harddrive. Turn on the harddrive and as soon as you hear it spin up turn the mac on. Once you have the harddrive mounted, go to Applications -> Utilities and double click on "Disk Utility". From there click on the little icon of your external harddrive and click "Verify permissions" after that click "Fix permissions"
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:33 am
If he formatted it, that means he formatted it to NTFS which usually only readable but still readable on a mac. Im not sure if thats your problem if you cant even see it. You can format it again with your Mac to FAT32 but youve gotta be able to see it on your computer. Open up disk utilites and tell it to erase…..and use MS-DOS format to format it.
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