[Solved] WD My Passport Ultra not detected By April Cai – Last Updated: 10 months ago Common Errors 1 Comment It’s popular to use WD(Western Digital) products for storing the huge amount of your files such as music, videos, photos,etc. Hello Zanaelf If you look at the format of the external hard drive, it is probable setup to NTFS and is something that Macs can read and copy from but cannot write to it. The only way you can do that is to reformat the drive to either so that it will be for Macs to write to or you can format it to FAT and it can read and write to both. Check out the articles below for more information. Also check out the other discussion that I provided as another user found a 3rd party piece of software that may assist you further if you do not want to reformat the drive. Regards, -Norm G. Thank you very much, obviously it is what I feared, a forced reformat of the passport drive to FAT 32. Unfortuantely I cant do that at the moment because I would have to buy another 1TB drive just to back the files up, and do not have money to spend like that for another 2 or 3 months. However, I have found a way to work around this is to install a micrisoft windows operating system on the make via a virtual machine, where your mac and the virtual machine are like intergrated, so that the desktop on the Mac is shared to the desktop on the virtual PC inside the mac. Download a macOS installer, such as macOS Mojave or macOS High Sierra. To download macOS Mojave or High Sierra for this purpose, download from a Mac that is using macOS Sierra 10.12.5 or later, or El Capitan 10.11.6. To create a bootable El Capitan installer drive, you need the El Capitan installer from the Mac App Store and a Mac-formatted drive that’s big enough to hold the installer and all its data. How to create install disk for mac. Then move the NTFS drive to be connected to the virtual pc, and then drag and drop the files or copy and pase them from the mac onto the drive that is connected to the virtual pc, which is connected physically to on your Mac's USB. Apple Footer • This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums. ![]() Apple disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conduct of any third parties in connection with or related to your use of the site. All postings and use of the content on this site are subject to the. There are ways to extract the drives since they are no different then any others just slapped into a tightly fit housing. With model changes and still the possibility it wasn't a 3.0 model to begin with while it may have worked on 7 it simply may end up not being able to on 10. You have to remember that 10 is three versions newer then 7 and has seen a number of changes in between. That plus the UEFI factor possibly being the source of this can't be ruled out either! Just like trying to boot from a 10 stick may run into problems the WD model there could also be running into that as well. I have a suspicion you could be running into that rather any driver issue where this time you need to configure things for Legacy instead of UEFI in order to get 10 to detect it on 3.0.
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