Everything was fine until the upgrade to 10.11.6. Now on my desktop, my connected external Time Machine drive no longer shows the Time Machine icon (like it used to), it's just the plain yellow drive icon. And when I plug in another external drive, it no longer automatically shows on the desktop (like it used to), so I have to go use a Finder window to access it (vs. Previously just clicking the icon for a finder window). Yes, I've done all the Preferences options, and everything listed here short of a total reinstall. This is why I got away from Windows.). My WD 2TB HDD suddenly ejected automatically and a message of improper eject came up.
I connected the hdd again but it did not detect. It was not showing in disk utility either. I checked it in another macbook but same issue. Then I connected in windows laptop and it got detected in USB 2.0 port but was not showing up in windows explorer. I checked in disk management and tried to open it but was not opening.
Right clicking was giving me only two options: delete volume and help. All other options were greyed out. Can anyone please help here? I don't want to format the hdd. Is your drive password protected like mine? My computer was being glitchy and when I tried to eject my g-drive it wanted a password, something I never saw before 'wanting a password to eject.'
Once I entered the password, the drive no longer appeared except for in Disc Utility. After days of panicking and trying to 'verify disk,' I right clicked on the disc and it said 'unlock.' I entered the password and it worked! The drive still doesn't show up when plugged in until I go through disc utility to unlock it, but at least I have access to it again.
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I have a WD Ultra 'My Passport' external hard drive and had originally configured it to my MacBook pro, but I just received the surface pro 4 as a gift and I'm trying to use the external hard drive with this device. I saw a post about getting the WD app, and I did that, but it doesn't recognize my device, or at least it is not detecting it.
Can I reconfigure it to be read by my surface? I'm not really 100% sure what to do. Hi, We want to make sure that you get the best out of your Surface Pro 4. Here's what we can do to make your external hard drive be detected or recognized by your device:.
Please. To isolate the issue, you may try another USB drive to make sure other devices are working. If the USB port works fine with other devices other than your external hard drive, here are the troubleshooting steps that you can follow:. Make sure that your Surface Pro 4 is plugged in and connected to the internet. Press on the Windows key + Q.
Type in Troubleshooting in the search box. Click on Troubleshooting and choose Hardware and Sound then select Hardware and Devices. Click on Next and follow the on-screen prompts. Let us know how it goes. To all of you; Apple uses a customized NTFS file system which does not exist in the drive table recognized by Windows and there is no patch or fix unless WD may have an app that can be installed.
A hard disk formatted from a Windows computer can be read on a Mac but you cannot write to it (it will tell you it is locked). Since you already have the hard disk formatted for your Windows system, keep it that way. On the Mac, go to the App Store and download/install OneDrive for Mac and transfer your files in that fashion. If you want a drive to backup your Mac, you can get another WD hard disk and reformat it via the Disk utility on the Mac and it will be totally usable 'on the Mac only'. You can use it to backup all your files on the Mac.
The hard disk you have now, use it to backup you Windows system. Apple did this deliberately a long time ago and there is only one universal solution and that is to get a NAS (Network Attached Storage) drive which hooks up to your router. Those are not machine dependent and both systems can use it.
Yea, I had hooked up my mini-HD to my Mac mini to test it out and thought to explore 'why'. Apple modified a NTFS file system format which does not exist on the drive table listing for formats.
There was a regular hard disk at one time that would but it came with a program that you installed on the Mac. The app would act as a 'converter' when accessing the drive and allowed read/write operations. Another reason why Apple never really makes it in the business world.
I found out the format structure on my Linux system by taking a spare hard disk and formatting it with my Mac mini and then plugged it into the Linux system which can read/write to both formats. La Cie' may be the maker of that hard disk I mentioned before but has been a really long time before I looked at the issue of using external hard disks with Apple machines. USB pendrives and SD cards are no problem. Just hard disks.
Oh, early OS/1 through 9 and early versions of OS/X where FAT32. When they made the change is unknown.