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How do I format a WD hard drive for Mac?.What format should my WD Passport be for Mac?.How do I reset my WD external hard drive for Mac?.How do I reformat a WD My Book for Mac?.I have also tried creating 2 and 4 partitions, and while Disk Utility appears to create the partitions, Disk Utility hangs and spits back:Įach time the popup error appears, the disk disappears from Disk Utility and the USB enclosure has to be powered down and turned on again for the computer to see it, after which I get the error message about the disk being unreadable and demanding to initialize it. I tried using the Disk Utility option to write zeros to the disk, but I get the error:īecause I can see a volume that represents the partition that I asked Disk Utility to create, I tried formatting that, but I get the error: Disk Utility appeared to create the new partition, but then poped up with the error message: So, I went into the partition manager and tried to create 1 partition, GUID table, and set the size to be the full capacity of the drive. When I looked at the drive in Disk Utility, there was an existing partition, presumably for Windows because OS X said that the disk was unreadable and wanted me to initialize it. I also have a Western Digital external drive connected through USB, and my situation doesn't fit the usual fixes.

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