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Oh, early OS/1 through 9 and early versions of OS/X where FAT32. USB pendrives and SD cards are no problem. La Cie' may be the maker of that hard disk I mentioned before but has been a really long time before I looked at the issue of using external hard disks with Apple machines. I found out the format structure on my Linux system by taking a spare hard disk and formatting it with my Mac mini and then plugged it into the Linux system which can read/write to both formats. The app would act as a 'converter' when accessing the drive and allowed read/write operations.Īnother reason why Apple never really makes it in the business world. There was a regular hard disk at one time that would but itĬame with a program that you installed on the Mac. Apple modified a NTFS file system format which does not exist on the drive table listing for formats. Yea, I had hooked up my mini-HD to my Mac mini to test it out and thought to explore "why". Those are not machine dependent and both systems can use it. The hard disk you have now, useĪpple did this deliberately a long time ago and there is only one universal solution and that is to get a NAS (Network Attached Storage) drive which hooks up to your router. You can use it to backup all your files on the Mac. If you want a drive to backup your Mac, you can get another WD hard disk and reformat it via the Disk utility on the Mac and it will be totally usable "on the Mac only". On the Mac, go to the App Store and download/install OneDrive for Mac and transfer your files in that fashion. Since you already have the hard disk formatted for your Windows system, keep it that way. On a Mac but you cannot write to it (it will tell you it is locked). A hard disk formatted from a Windows computer can be read
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To all of you Apple uses a customized NTFS file system which does not exist in the drive table recognized by Windows and there is no patch or fix unless WD may have an app that can be installed.
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The Macs did locate my HD but it was impossible to get the password accepted and access the info stored.I have a WD Ultra "My Passport" external hard drive and had originally configured it to my MacBook pro, but I just received the surface pro 4 as a gift and I'm trying to use the external hard drive with this device. He told me to try to enter the password on another Mac first, which I did, in several other Macs. But later he said it was a bit risky to instal the update, because it would change something important on the Hard Drive. When I called WD Customer Support, the support guy told me to download the updated version of the Firmware “WDFirmwareUpdater” for the my WD Hard Drive (Mac version). My Western Digital HDD was made in Malasya. Have you had the same problem and managed to solve it? It´s out of question to reset it or to reformat the hard drive and I´m quite skeptic to send it or leave it at some lab to be decrypted.ĭo you think I could be there while the technicians do this?

I contacted Western Digital but it seems there is nothing they can possibly do to help me retrieve my information. I have several external hard drives and all share the same password (I even have the password written on a printed paper), the problem is that the WD password appno longer accepts my password, for some bizarre reason.
