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Completely repartition the drive and reformat. If you have installed any WD software on your computer be sure to remove it completely. Drive Partition and Format 1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button.
When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. If you are preparing an external or a non-startup drive, then open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.' S ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say 'Verified' then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives.
Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one.
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Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
Steps 4-6 are optional but should be used on a drive that has never been formatted before, if the format type is not Mac OS Extended, if the partition scheme has been changed, or if a different operating system (not OS X) has been installed on the drive. Oh, I know about WD releases, Ive had my eyes GLUED to that issue from the beginning. Yes, the bare drives themselves arent the issue, but the OP mentioned 'WD My Passport' And, alas WD (same as Seagate does) includes lots of nice 'helpful' (translate counterproductive and useless) software packages with their external USB and RAID drives.I did notice today that the local Apple store had pulled ALL the WD MyBook for sale.
Here is what you mentioned: (but once the external is repartitioned its all a 'close the door after the horse is gone' situation, even with the 'fix') WD is happy to announce the release of. Fixed an issue related to reports of some customers, under certain conditions, experiencing data loss when updating to Apple's OS X Mavericks (10.9). What is it formatted as? П˜Š You stated- 'It was connecting until the other day' (to the Mac) What you and most people dont understand (logically I see why) is that it makes 'no logical sense that it will mount on ONE machine and not another' (however as per your mention it would be a minor power variance to the SATA card as different slightly between the Mac and PC) however this bizarre behavior is actually typical for a dying SATA bridge card, they produce 4 extremely counter-intuitive diagnostic issues (as mentioned in the LINK). (this is why SATA bridge issues are often called 'haunted hard drive syndrome', due to illogical behavior) On a side note, the 'WD for Mac' doesnt mean anything.
The drive is just marketed that way. There is no such thing as a 'MAC HD' or a 'PC HD', all HD are just blank bricks and formatted for either PC or Mac or for both (ExFat). FAT32 (File Allocation Table). Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X. Maximum file size: 4GB. Maximum volume size: 2TB. You can use this format if you share the drive between Mac OS X and Windows computers and have no files larger than 4GB.
NTFS (Windows NT File System). Read/Write NTFS from native Windows. Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X. To Read/Write/Format NTFS from Mac OS X, here are some alternatives:. For Mac OS X 10.4 or later (32 or 64-bit), install Paragon (approx $20) (Best Choice for Lion). Native NTFS support can be enabled in Snow Leopard and Lion, but is not advisable, due to instability.
AirPort Extreme (802.11n) and Time Capsule do not support NTFS. Maximum file size: 16 TB. Maximum volume size: 256TB.
You can use this format if you routinely share a drive with multiple Windows systems. HFS+ ((((MAC FORMAT)))) (Hierarchical File System, a.k.a. Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Don't use case-sensitive). Read/Write HFS+ from native Mac OS X.
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Required for Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! Backups of Mac internal hard drive. To Read HFS+ (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer. Maximum file size: 8EiB. Maximum volume size: 8EiB. You can use this format if you only use the drive with Mac OS X, or use it for backups of your Mac OS X internal drive, or if you only share it with one Windows PC (with MacDrive installed on the PC) EXFAT (FAT64).
Supported in Mac OS X only in 10.6.5 or later. Not all Windows versions support exFAT. exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table). AirPort Extreme (802.11n) and Time Capsule do not support exFAT. Maximum file size: 16 EiB.
Maximum volume size: 64 ZiB. You can use this format if it is supported by all computers with which you intend to share the drive. See 'disadvantages' for details. After searching the web for hours and trying everything I finally found the answer to this. I have a MAC Book Pro and also have the WD Passport, it was working just the other day and now it wasn't. I could hear it working and see the white light on but it was NOT showing up in devices but WAS showing up in disc utility.
Here's what I did; With my WD Passport plugged in I went to; FINDER APPLICATIONS DISC UTILITY Click on the WD Passport (in My case it said 1TB WD My Passport) at the left hand side so it's highlighted Then click on FIRST AID in the middle section then at the bottom right hand side click on VERIFY DISC This gave me some errors that needed to be fixed, and then I clicked on REPAIR DISC and in a few minutes it was fixed. Now, I don't know if this was a problem for you, but when I clicked below the 1TB WD My Passport where I named my passport 'Modella2014' (you will have a different name obviously) in the bottom section it said MOUNT POINT 'not mounted' So I went back up to 'Modella2014' and right clicked (on the mac track pad that's a 2 finger click) and selected 'Mount Modella2014' and in a few seconds that was mounted. Hope this helps, feel free to share and save someone else the 4 hours it took me to figure this out. Now back to editing! Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.
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