Jan 08, 2020 Using Your WD Elements Drive on Your Mac and a PC. Yes you can use your WD Elements drive for both a Mac and a PC if you want. And particularly if you want to use for both without using special software. And its easy to do. Unc mac application. You just connect up your WD Elements drive to your Mac and format it to ExFAT. Setting Up WD Elements For Mac. Mac turn off webcam. WD Elements is a storage device used for backing up your data or storing the files and folders. If you wish to Set Up WD Elements For Mac, follow the below-mentioned steps.
- Method 2: format WD Elements for Mac with a free format tool. 1TB, 2TB WD Elements external drive to FAT32, thus making the drive readable and writable on Mac.
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I have a Mac Mini (Intel). Tried the Ext HDD fresh out of the box, the write status is Read Only. I had MacFuse installed then and I have another NTFS Ext HD but I just cant write in the new HD.
So what I did is I tried reformatting to Fat32 using my Windows machine, didnt work, still Read Only. Downloaded a program for Windows to format a drive to Mac OS Extended, HD is still locked. Partitioned it to 3 parts of Fat32 and NTFS, mounts but cant be written. In all tries, the Erase/Partition tabs in Disk Utility is still grayed out.
I tried re-installing my OS, reformatting my internal drive. Ext HDD is still read only.
I also tried putting codes in terminal (i googled) to modify the permissions like sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/Drive but it did not work either.
Last try is to use KillDisk and fully erased my drive from windows for 11hrs.. guess what. it didnt work either. I am really exhausted right now. here's the screenshot Notice all in Erase is grayed out. Same status as when I tried the other methods I mentioned.
Can anyone help me here?
So what I did is I tried reformatting to Fat32 using my Windows machine, didnt work, still Read Only. Downloaded a program for Windows to format a drive to Mac OS Extended, HD is still locked. Partitioned it to 3 parts of Fat32 and NTFS, mounts but cant be written. In all tries, the Erase/Partition tabs in Disk Utility is still grayed out.
I tried re-installing my OS, reformatting my internal drive. Ext HDD is still read only.
I also tried putting codes in terminal (i googled) to modify the permissions like sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/Drive but it did not work either.
Last try is to use KillDisk and fully erased my drive from windows for 11hrs.. guess what. it didnt work either. I am really exhausted right now. here's the screenshot Notice all in Erase is grayed out. Same status as when I tried the other methods I mentioned.
Can anyone help me here?
