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Further, transfer of files to-and-from the external hard drive is made possible when the device is successfully mounted on the Mac computer. After connecting the drive to my Mac - USB directly into the computer - I powered up the Mac and got a dialogue. When plugged into Mac’s USB port, a healthy external hard drive gets readily available on the Desktop, Finder, and Disk Utility section. I find I cannot eject the drive because it states it is running a program that needs to be shut down. My Macs Disk Utility wont recognize my WD 115 Gig external drive - I want to use the external as a backup to files on my Mac - below is the sequence of what I did while trying to get the Mac to read the drive. Ive changed the USB port but it still not working. Leave the drive turned on but unplug it from your computer.
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or the cloud feature but I do get a page come up on a pc reboot stating "no disc attached for cloud "which I would expect because I down load from the pc only and I dont need that feature. 'My 1TB WD external hard drive is not working on my Windows 10 PC and I can do nothing to the drive since it fails to show up in This PC. With WD Discovery software, you can also download the NTFS driver for macOS, so you can work seamlessly between operating systems without reformatting. By that I mean would the data be over written or would a new sector be created therefor loosing the 30 gb of space it uses. If I had managed to redo the setup would that have effected my backed up data that is already on the WD drive. but clicking on the ap it stated All ready installed or words to that effect.
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(((( I have clean a Mac OS 10.13.
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Unfortunately I am running windows 10 which I hate with a passion on a fast relatively new PC. I need help WD Utilities Installer for Mac 2.1.1.80 not installed correctly - window appears WD Drive Utilities quit unexpectedly. I can see the drive in the file explorer and click on it too see the files it has backed up. When clicking on Utilities there is a message select drive at the top of the page, but it does not display any drives. I then booted up from my original Mac OS 9 CD and successfully initialized the drive - there were only two options for that - Mac Standard and Mac Extended - I chose extended - When I'm in boot up mode from the CD the external does show up on the desktop without any files on it so I assume that the computer does read the external - I opened the Drive Setup Utility and chose List of Drives where it lists the with Bus numbers - My Mac is is listed as Bus 2 while the external is 0 it also says the external is "not supported" - There was also a yellow sticky like note in the upper corner of the computer that said "Complete functionality of USB devices is not available from start up CD" so I feel there is something wrong there and initializing the external from the OS 9 CD did something bad - I'm currently trying to figure out if the jumper setting on the external is correct - there seems to be special instructions for the Mac in the WD drive literature - it recommends to set it as a slave configuration - also if the Bus setting is 0 does that mean it's not recognized or is not connected or is there a legitmate Bus setting of 0 - I don't know just a thoughtģ.Hi thank you for your response to my confusion Clifford. After connecting the drive to my Mac - USB directly into the computer - I powered up the Mac and got a dialogue box that said Initialize, Ignore or Eject - when I chose Initialize it opened the Mac's Disk Utility where you erase or partition the drive to be recognized - I tried to both erase and initialize the external - I erased the drive with no luck and then initialized the drive by selecting the drive from the sidebar and chose Partition (I saved it as a Mac Extended Journaled drive with 1 partiton) - but all I got was the spinning ball that would go on for as long as 15 minutes - After restart the Disk Utility recognized the external but it still didn't show on the desktopĢ. My Mac's Disk Utility wont recognize my WD 115 Gig external drive - I want to use the external as a backup to files on my Mac - below is the sequence of what I did while trying to get the Mac to read the driveġ.
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