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WD Drive Utilities for Mac is a specialized utility for WD hard drives to run drive diagnostics (fix potential drive failures, slow disk performance, and bad sectors), Manage RAID configuration (For RAID supported models), Erase and format WD hard drives, etc.ĭrive Partition and Format - El Capitan or Later Use WD Drive Utilities when WD hard drives not working on Mac.
Wait for a few minutes for the process to complete. Select the Quick Format option then click on Start. Type a name in the Volume Label This is the name that will represent your drive when you connect it with your PC or Mac. Select the File System from the drop-down list then choose either ex-FAT or FAT32.Also read: Other ways to erase external hard drive on Mac. When finished, you can mount your WD external hard drive on Mac and use it again. Provide a name and a format to erase the drive. Select the unmountable WD external hard drive and click 'Erase' on the top. Go to Applications Utilities Disk Utility.
Next, choose the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) option from the Format drop-down menu. Enter a name for the WD Elements hard drive in the Name field.
Select a format from the 'Format' drop-down menu beneath the 'Name' text field, for example, 'Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)' or 'MSDOS (Fat).' After selecting the WD Elements hard drive, click the Erase tab at the top of the window to start formatting the drive. Name the WD external hard drive in the 'Name' text field that appears beneath the 'Erase' tab. 1 - Format WD My Passport in Windows Platform (Using Free Software) You can format a Western Digital My Passport external hard drive to ex-FAT or FAT32 format using a free ex-FAT or FAT32 converter - EaseUS Partition Master free or use. Here are three ways to format a WD My Passport for Mac, follow any one of them to convert to FAT or exFAT. I want to use this new disk as a time machine backup disk. Having attempted this now says 'Erase process failed' and has called the disk' Disk 2s1' and is all greyed out. Tony Lush said: New (December 2017) WD Elements Drive will not format to Mac OS Extended Journaled.