- #WD ELEMENTS OR MY PASSPORT FOR MAC HOW TO#
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To make space on the device, you can delete some files. Sometimes you may have unwanted files on your WD My Passport.
#WD ELEMENTS OR MY PASSPORT FOR MAC HOW TO#
How to Delete Files from WD My Passport on Mac
#WD ELEMENTS OR MY PASSPORT FOR MAC PC#
After erasing the files, it will proceed to reformat the drive using the ex-FAT or FAT32 format.Īfter the formatting is complete, you can start using the external hard drive on your Mac PC as a regular external hard drive. Wait for a while and let the Mac system erase all data on the drive. Step 4: Next, click on the ‘Erase’ button.
From here, choose ‘Volume Format’ from the drop-down menu and select ‘ex-FAT File System’ or MS-DOS (FAT)’. Next, select the WD My Passport external hard drive icon and click ‘Erase’ from the Disk Utility file menu. Step 3: This will open the ‘Disk Utility’ application. Next, select ‘Disk Utility’ from the Utility window. From here, you will see the Application/Utility folder within the Finder. Next, click on ‘Utility’ from the next window. From the menu bar, locate the ‘Go’ menu and click on it. Step 2: Navigate to the macOS Dock and select ‘Finder’. You will see the hard drive icon displayed on the desktop. It took two days to copy while HDD is in bottom up position.Step 1: Connect your WD My Passport external hard drive to your Mac PC and wait for the operating system to detect and mount your drive and get it ready for use. Copied those using Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier. I copied all the needed files, except two that failed reading at 95% due to bad sectors. The drive was detected and showed in Windows. Holding in this position, I connected the data cable, opened the Device Manager and performed a Scan for HW changes. Surprisingly, the gravitational force made the trick with the heads! The HDD started spinning without clicking. I thought of opening and inspecting the heads and platters (drive has no critical data on it), pulled the HDD out and while holding it bottom up connected it to the power. Could be heads calibration issue or a damaged Service Area that stores manufacture data required for HDD operation. My HDD never fell, nor got a physical damage. A guy from recovery services said, if it's spinning, 99.9% it's not the PCB. Removing the data cable as WD suggest didn't help. My oldest WD internal drive is 14 yo and all of a sudden it started clicking loudly and shutdown itself after 30sec. Notify them of the problem and the drive will be replaced. Just get onto the WD website and log into the my support section. So for anyone whom does have a backup (and anything important should be backed up) then this is the best way to fix the problem. WD replaced the drives within a few days of me notifying them of the problem as well. Anyway luckily both of effected drives where still under warranty when it happened and both where backed up onto other copies. On a side note I sync the backups using a program called Cronosync which syncs all new and updated files automatically at the click of a button. In the past six months I've had this happen twice so I am thankful that I always keep backups of everything. I have been using WD drives since 2012 and I now have 24 drives in total.
#WD ELEMENTS OR MY PASSPORT FOR MAC FULL#
When all three drives are full I send the third drive back to my home country of Australia in case something happens to my drives in Vietnam.
I travel regularly for work so I keep three copies of every drive so that I can travel with two drives and leave one behind in case I get robbed while I am travelling. I have a lot of WD drives, I'm a Vietnam based photographer and I use them to store my work on.
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