I am using a 2TB WD passport in my mac for the past 10 months. It was working fine till now, but all of the sudden the hard disk is not getting recognised in my mac. The LED in the hard disk is glowing, but the hard disk is not getting recognized. I have tried to connect with other cables too, its not working. All my important data is in this hard disk. Please help me, ASAP.
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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. 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 readon a Mac but you cannot write to it (it will tell you it is locked).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.
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The hard disk you have now, useit 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 itcame 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.
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