My WD My Passport 2TB Portable External Hard Drive has suddenly become unreadable on my laptop (MacBook Pro Server with macOS 10.12 Sierra) and I have tried on a MacBook Pro 2011 running 10.13 High Sierra with the same results. My Passport as a Mac Time Machine Backup Drive. Using your WD My Passport for Time Machine is perfectly fine. Format it correctly. Then tell Time Machine on your Mac to use the drive to back up to. You will need the whole hard drive or a partition of the hard drive allocated to Time Machine.
I have purchased a 1TB Western Digital My Passport Drive (an external drive connected via USB). How should I format this drive to use it with Time Machine? I'm running OSX 10.6.8 on an Intel iMac (hardware circa 2005). I have been using Time Machine for several years, rotating through external disks.
Thie new disk will replace one of the previous disks which has failed. I have forgotten how I formatted the previous disks.
I'm primarily interested in whther to use HFS or whatnot. As to partitioning, the format will just be one partition for the whole disk. I'm going to see if I can figure this out using Disk Utility, but in the mean time, does anyone have recommendations?
Thanks in advance, Frank. Drive Preparation 1.
Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder. After DU loads select the WD Passport drive (entry with the mfgr.' S ID and size) from the left side list. 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. 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 Partition 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. Drive Preparation 1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
After DU loads select the WD Passport drive (entry with the mfgr.' S ID and size) from the left side list. 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. 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 Partition 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. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums.
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Brand: Western Digital Custom Bundle: No Storage Capacity: 2TB Modified Item: No MPN: WDBP6A0020BBKWESN Model: My Passport Type: Portable External Drive Non-Domestic Product: No UPC: 181. Product Information The Western Digital My Passport is a 2TB external hard drive that makes a perfect addition to any computing terminal.
It can be used to perform periodic data backups and store any kind of file. It can also be programmed to accept passwords.
The compact package makes portability a prime focus and it can be easily packed. The solid state dard drive comes with a USB connector and software for one-click installation.
Product Identifiers Brand Western Digital UPC 181 Model My Passport eBay Product ID (ePID) 230665398 Product Key Features Storage Capacity 2TB MPN WDBP6A0020BBKWESN Dimensions Weight 0.54lbs. Width 4.33in. Height 0.85in. Depth 3.21in. Additional Product Features Drive Interface USB 2.0, USB 3.0 Platform MAC Type Portable External HDD. Backed Up and No Fear of Data Loss As described. Size is small enough to pocket.
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WD has good (not great) technical support and warranty service if you ever have to use it. My other WD drive products are working well after a few years.
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This drive has a fast transfer speed on MacBook Pro 2012 I7. Easy to setup secure app using apple keychain. Also works well on Windows 10 laptop I5.
Just works well as intended. Easy to optimize and compact drive for maximum efficiency. Slightly more expensive than others, but you get what you pay for.
Tip: buy 50% more space than you absolutely need. These drives (not just WD) start to degrade gradually in performance once you pass that capacity. Good reliable media storage. Good reliable storage as prices continue to come down. I've had other brands of USB drives fail over time, like Toshiba.
I keep several units on rotation stored at several off-site locations for personal family media. For Windows users, I've used Microsoft SyncToy to keep data synced across devices. SyncToy in and of itself isn't perfect, but I haven't accidentally sync-wiped files from drive to drive my mistake like some other sync tools, so fairly user-friendly. I digress.:) 2018-08-29.
Slim, large capacity, and affordable! Another great hard drive from western digital I have never had a bad experience with any of their products and I feel that this X ternal hard drive will last a lifetime as long as I take care of it and don’t throw it into a wall I guess lol very satisfied with the size as well as the speed with usb 3.0 it’s hard to imagine 2000 gigabytes of data being able to fit into something so small, thanks wd for being awesome and making good affordable products that are top of the line for the price. MAC or PC, It's Still A Drive It doesn't really matter what type of computer you have, A drive is a drive. All that changes is the formatting of the disk, A 'Windows' drive comes formatted with NTFS and some programs to run on it. A MAC drive has EFI some programs to run on it. Beware that if you want to use a MAC drive on Windows, you will first have to remove the EFI partition.
Search for 'EFI Delete System Partition' and there are perhaps 5 steps to go through, In any case the drive is the same, so look for the best price.
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