On the Home tab it has a list of categories on the C: drive and on Passport. The Backup and Retrieve tabs are not highlighted so cannot open them. The Help file says there are toggle switches for Category and for Files that you can click on how you want to view the backup. Remo Recover (Mac) software is built with advanced algorithms to restore deleted or lost files from your WD my passport external hard drive. Recover Data from WD My Passport Mac with Remo Recover Tool: Remo Recover (Mac) – Pro Edition Software is an efficient recovery tool that can be used to recover files from WD My Passport for Mac.

Minecraft mods on mac. 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. I saw a post about getting the WD app, and I did that, but it doesn't recognize my device, or at least it is not detecting it. Can I reconfigure it to be read by my surface? I'm not really 100% sure what to do. Hi, We want to make sure that you get the best out of your Surface Pro 4. Here's what we can do to make your external hard drive be detected or recognized by your device: • Please.

• To isolate the issue, you may try another USB drive to make sure other devices are working. If the USB port works fine with other devices other than your external hard drive, here are the troubleshooting steps that you can follow: • Make sure that your Surface Pro 4 is plugged in and connected to the internet. • Press on the Windows key + Q. • Type in Troubleshooting in the search box. • Click on Troubleshooting and choose Hardware and Sound then select Hardware and Devices.

• Click on Next and follow the on-screen prompts. Let us know how it goes. 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. A hard disk formatted from a Windows computer can be read on a Mac but you cannot write to it (it will tell you it is locked).

The best ways to format an external drive for Windows and Mac. Read and write files to the drive. NTFS-3G is an open-source. Two because instead of having one hard drive that works with. One hard drive for ntfs and mac os extended. How to Make Mac OS Extended to NTFS? Discussion in 'Mac Basics and Help' started by littlegreenyoda, Oct 13. Format the hard drive as FAT in OSX, then plug it into your Windows box and format it to NTFS from there. And Windows won't recognise a MacOS Journaled drive. *edit* NTFS 3g is Mac OS software to allow you to read and write to. Solution 3: Create One HFS+ Partition for Mac and One NTFS Partition for Windows. Alternatively, you can create 2 partitions on the external hard drive: one is for Mac, and the other is for Windows. As to size for each partition, it depends on your own demands. By this way, you can easily format an external hard drive for Mac and Windows. How to use one External HUD for your Mac and PC you have a PC and how to have two Partition in Mac OS Extended (Journal) and FAT (Ms-Dos-FAT)as you desire the size of your partition under application, Utilities and Disk Utility and covert the (FAT32) to (NTFS)using Windows Control Panel or just search by Start, search Computer Management.

Since you already have the hard disk formatted for your Windows system, keep it that way. On the Mac, go to the App Store and download/install OneDrive for Mac and transfer your files in that fashion. 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'. You can use it to backup all your files on the Mac. The hard disk you have now, use it to backup you Windows system.

Apple 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. Those are not machine dependent and both systems can use it. Yea, I had hooked up my mini-HD to my Mac mini to test it out and thought to explore 'why'. Apple modified a NTFS file system format which does not exist on the drive table listing for formats. There was a regular hard disk at one time that would but it came with a program that you installed on the Mac. The app would act as a 'converter' when accessing the drive and allowed read/write operations.

Another reason why Apple never really makes it in the business world. 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.

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. USB pendrives and SD cards are no problem. Just hard disks. Oh, early OS/1 through 9 and early versions of OS/X where FAT32. When they made the change is unknown.