Western Digital Elements Mac Format

How to Format WD Elements for Mac? Open up Disk Utility. Your Disk Utility program lives within a folder called Utilities. And the Utilities folder lives in your Application's folder. In Your Disk Utility Window. Click on your WD Elements Drive. Look at the Top of your Disk Utility. After Disk Utility loads select the drive (out-dented entry with 1TB WD Passport.) from the side list. Click on the Erase tab in the Disk Utility toolbar. A panel should drop down. In the drop down panel set the partition scheme to GUID. Set the Format type to APFS (SSDs only) or Mac OS Extended (Journaled.).

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Steps on how to format the drive are provided on the following link: How to partition and format a WD drive on Windows (8, 7, Vista, XP) and Mac OSX. Format your Western Digital My Passport external hard drive to FAT32 or ex-FAT format so to transfer the data between a Mac and Windows system conveniently. There are specific third-party systems, like Digital Camcorders, and Sony PlayStation 3, which need the drives to be formatted in either FAT32 or ex-FAT format to perform read from and write operation. When the Disk Utility opens, choose the Western Digital hard drive icon from the sidebar. Click ‘Erase' on the Disk Utility file menu. Now, the Erase dialogue window appears, here select the ‘Volume Format' drop-down list and choose ‘MS-DOS (FAT)' or ex-FAT File System.'.

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1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities' folder.
2. After Disk Utility loads select the drive (out-dented entry with 1TB WD Passport...) from the side list.
3. Click on the Erase tab in the Disk Utility toolbar. A panel should drop down.
4. In the drop down panel set the partition scheme to GUID. Set the Format type to APFS (SSDs only) or Mac OS Extended (Journaled.)
5. Click on the Apply button and click on the Done button when it is activated.
6. Quit Disk Utility.

Aug 15, 2018 11:02 PM