“i tried setting this up on my mac but it shows read only. what do i do?”
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from the WD website - I would go there and check for your product to clarify - "You can check the product page of the drive on our website and see if it comes pre-formatted for Windows OS or Mac OS X. My guess is it's formatted in NTFS (Windows OS) and that's why it turns up as read-only on your Mac. You can easily change that by re-formatting the drive. However, keep in mind that if you have any data saved onto it, it will be erased. If you plan to use the external only on Mac OS computers, you can simply change the file system to HFS+ and reformat the drive. Here's a tutorial that can help you with that: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=e1ZvhN If you have Windows computers as well and would like to access (read and write to) the external from both operating systems, then you'd need to use the exFAT/FAT32 file system. Here's another tutorial that explains how to do that: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=Wtbgrd However, the latter file system has some limitations, you can check those here: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=X1kN54 "
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Unless you bought a Mac specific drive, you'll have to reformat the drive to use it. You can try FAT for Multi OS or use HFS for apple only.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.or you can go to the WD Support website page and if you don't find your answer listed - you can ask the WD community for an answer - https://support.wdc.com/product.aspx?ID=238&lang=en
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The drive comes formatted in NTFS format, which makes it read-only in Mac. There are two options: (1) reformat the drive to be Mac-compatible, but this will erase the drive, or (2) install third-party software to allow the Mac to read/write NTFS drives (e.g. I use NTFS for Mac).
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.You might have to open up the Drive utility and format the drive
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