My Passport Icons is a set of Mac, Windows & Linux icons for the Western Digital My Passport range of portable external hard drives. The set currently includes icons for the red, black, dark blue, light blue, orange, pink, turquoise, white, silver and yellow 'Essential' drives & the black and silver 'Studio' drives. I bought myself a 'my passport for mac 320gb'. Holy Hell, if I am buying it, its because I want to exchange files. But it doesnt work on pc's!
Hi (again), apologies for the newbie posts but i’m having some trouble working this thing out i was hoping to plug this essential passport into my mac and then drag files onto it for safekeeping. It’s turning out to be a bit of a pain. So, i’ve installed the hardrive and been taken through the setup process.
Now all i want to do is manually select files form my mac and put them onto the drive. However, when i try dragging something into the drive, i get an error message that reads: '‘item could not be moved because “my passport” cannot be modified’ err, what?! Does this have something to do with this whole partitioning/formatting process? And if so, could someone please explain this to me as i don’t understand. Hey, It may just be that you have to reformat your harddrive. First: Copy the files on the harddrive onto your mac desktop Second: Go to Finder - applications - Utilities - disk Utilities 3rd: select your hard drive on the left hand side list Chose the Erase tab. And for the volume format, chose MAC Os Extended Let it reformat, when it’s done, open up your hard drive, and copy back in the original files back onto it You should be able to drag in files and what not!
I hope this helped, hopefully your problem is what I think it is. Hi all, Ok here it is. The only fully compatible native format for both Mac and PC is FAT32. However, FAT32 has some major limitations associated with it. Among these are a 4GB file transfer limitation which could rule out large videos created with final cut or other software. Although you can render to the external you will not be able to move the file video once rendered. Windows is not able to natively see HFS+ (Mac default) format and although Mac can see NTFS it is a Read-only.
You can copy to and from the drive just not modify files on the drive when attached to your Mac. There are third party software programs for both Mac and PC that would allow you to have the drive formatted one way or the other and still have access to it. But here is a warning, although I know people who use both Mac and PC and use drives in FAT32 between both of them, I have seen data or file corruption occur form having multiple operating systems working with files on the same drive. As FAT32 has been obsolete for oh about 10 years now, I would not really recommend using it.
I would pick a platform and stick with it (Mac or PC) both are great computers for their uses, but they never have communicated very well since the inception of both. Powered by, best viewed with JavaScript enabled.
General Troubleshooting WD Drive File System Format The file systems on WD External USB Drives vary per product make and model. The table listed below displays possible file system formats of WD USB drives. Reformatting the USB drive may be required for the make and model of Smart TV or device being used. Please refer to your Smart TV or DVR User Manual to determine the file systems supported on external USB drives. WD Drive Factory Format My Passport AV TV FAT32 My Book AV TV FAT32 My Passport NTFS, FAT32, exFAT My Book NTFS, FAT32, exFAT My Passport for mac HSF+ My Book for mac HSF+ Drive Sector Sizes Earlier small capacity drives use a 512 byte sector size with MBR Newer higher capacity drives use a more efficient 4096 byte sector size with GPT.
Although the partition table and the file system can be changed, the sector size of the drive cannot be modified. USB Cables A USB cable may work with one computer but not another. Obtaining a high quality replacement or trying a different USB cable may resolve your issue. USB Port Power and Dual Powered USB Cable If the alternate computer can see and access the drive, the Smart TV or DVR USB port may not provide enough power for the external drive. Power from USB ports can vary. The use of a Power Booster cable may be needed in order to provide enough power to the USB drive. A Power Booster cable is a Y-shaped cable with an extra connector that allows for connecting a USB device to two USB ports on a computer.
For (My Book) connect the power adapter directly in to a wall socket if available General Smart TV Support Verify if the partition table, capacity and filesystem of the My Passport or My Book is compatible with your Smart TV or DVR. Open Disk Manager on Windows or Disk Utility on macOS. Verify the file system format of your external USB Drive (exFAT, FAT32,NTFS,HSF+, etc.). Verify the partition table of your external USB Drive (MBR, GPT.). Contact your Smart TV manufacturer or consult their Knowledge Base Articles (KBA) to determine if the make of model of the TV supports the partition table, file system and capacity of the external USB drive.
If the parition table is not supported, reformat the drive with the supported partition table. To change the partition table of the drive, please refer to. If the file system is not supported, reformat the drive To reformat the drive, please refer to. If the capacity is not supported, use a drive capacity that is supported by the Smart TV or DVR. Vendor Specific Support Western Digital Technical Support does not provide setup, configuration or technical support for thrid party vendor products.
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