Format your Western Digital My Passport external hard drive to FAT32 or ex-FAT format to conveniently transfer the data between a Mac and Windows system. Connect the WD elemental hard disk to your Mac powered device. There are specific third-party systems, like Digital Camcorders and Sony PlayStation, which need the drives to be formatted in either FAT32 or ex-FAT format to perform read and write operation. Connect your WD Elements drive to your Mac.
Connect your Hard disk to your computer and wait. First to format your Elements WD drive to Mac OS Extended Journaled file system. Then your Western Digital external hard drive is ready to use on your Mac. Go to the finder option from the Mac OS dock and open it.
#FORMAT WD ELEMENTS HARD DRIVE FOR MAC MAC OS# Here I recommend you to change the file system of the WD hard drive from NTFS to FAT32 or exFAT, thus the WD hard drive is able to be used not only with Mac, but also with Windows. To partition and format the drive with Disk Utility, follow these steps: 1. How do I install WD software on my computer? 1. Double left-click on the Mac HD, the internal Mac hard drive visible on the top-right corner of the desktop screen. Choose Applications from the left-side panel. While in there, open Utilities, and lastly double-click on Disk Utility. If you don’t have internet connectivity, please install WD Backup™ and WD Drive Utilities™ from the WD Software Offline Installers > For Windows folder.įor Windows, run WD Discovery.exe to install WD software to help you get a backup plan and modify drive settings.