Formatting Wd My Book Essential For Mac

  

How to format external drives using WD Quick Formatter in Windows or Mac Answer ID 3868 This answer explains how to use the WD Quick Formatter to format a WD external drive in Windows (8, 7, Vista, or XP) and Mac OSX (Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mt. Lion, or Mavericks).*END. I just bought a My Book Essential 3TB external hard drive, and would like to use it on my Mac. It says I have to format it first, but in order to format it, I have to partition it. The Volume Label field can be customized in order to give the volume a desired name, such as My Book or WD Black 1. Check the box labeled Perform a quick format and click Next. Click Finish to begin formatting the drive.

I've got a 1TB Western Digital 'My Book Essentials' (). When I plug it into my Dell Optiplex running Vista, the Autoplay gives me the option of installing WD Smartware or 'Open Folder to View Files'. When I choose WD Smartware and install it, I get an error message: 'No Writable WD Smartware Partition Found'. When I select Open Folder to View Files, I get a window that opens up showing me the CD drive with the Smartware software. Mce remote driver for mac. I can also now see a new local disk listed ('G'). When I try to open the new local disk, it says it has to be formatted. Mib browser mac os x.

When I try to format it, it gives me an error message: 'Windows was unable to complete the format'. I've also tried connecting it to a different computer running XP with very similar results. I also tried formatting the drive with Norton Partition Magic 8.0. That formatting also fails. I obviously have no data on this drive that I need. I ultimately need to connect this drive to an old Mac to copy some files. Thanks, Darin.

“I stored all my backup data from MacBook on WD My Book Essential external drive. The data read & write speed of this drive was just awesome. It held all my personal documents, folders, movies, songs, important pictures and many more. But today as I connected this drive to copy few files from it, I wrongly formatted it by clicking on Erase Hard drive option in Disk Utility. This has removed all my data from WD My Book Essential portable hard drive. Is there any method to restore data from formatted WD external drive on Mac? Please help to resolve my situation by providing suggestions.” WD is a large hard drive producer for various computer platforms.

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Among its wonderful hard drive models, My Book Essential series of external hard drives delivers outstanding performance. It comes in various storage capacities including 320GB, 400GB, 500GB, 640GB, 750GB, 1TB, 2TB, 3TB and 4TB. Interfaced with USB 3.0, this external hard drive includes Power Management feature to save power usage and My Book Essential HDD performs brilliantly on Mac computers. But certain times users might lose crucial data from WD My Book Essential USB hard drive in scenarios like: • Frequent removal of WD hard drive from Mac machines in abrupt way can cause its corruption leading to data loss • Partition Map corruption and file system corruption on WD My Book Essential due to incorrect format process, logical errors, using the drive on different platforms, etc. Will lead to loss of entire volumes from WD My Book Essential drive • Corrupt volume as a result of malware intrusion to My Book Essential removable drive will make all its data inaccessible • Accidental deletion or formatting of any volume from WD My Book Essential hard drive without complete backup will erase useful data Data from My Book Essential external hard drive can become futile in all above scenarios, if user do not posses good backup. In these instances, WD My Book Essential data recovery on Mac can be performed using third party data recovery tool like. This software is exceptionally built to bring back data from hard drives on Mac computers with extreme ease.

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