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To use your Western Digital Elements drive natively on your Mac. Comes with a USB cable thatвЂ™s 3.0 type A on the end that plugs into your MacвЂ™s USB port.

#Cannot backup to wd elements drive portable#

Your WD Elements portable hard drive or Elements Desktop drive. YouвЂ™ll see how later on in this article.Д¬LICK HERE: To Read A Review On WD Elements On Mac Plugging In Your WD Elements Cable Into Your Mac Your Elements external hard drive seems read only. Your Mac will see and read your Elements NTFS drive.ДЄnd that means you can copy off files and work on them on your Mac.Д«ut when youвЂ™re ready to put documents onto your Elements drive. Your Western Digital Elements external drive is in a format called NTFS.

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#Cannot backup to wd elements drive manual#

You would have to read in the TV's manual about the formats that the TV recognizes. Once that is donw, all you have to do is connect your external hard drive to your TV and provided the files in your drive are compatible with TV, it should be able to read files and you should be able to view your movies. Once your external is formatted with Fat32, copy/move the files back to your external from your mac. select the partition (there should be only one) You can do the following to format drive: Once you format a drive, you loose all the information on it. Before doing that, make sure to copy any files you have in your hard drive to a folder in your mac. If you want to format your external hard drive to Fat32 in a mac you can use the mac utilities to format it. Ext2,3,4 are formats compatible with linux. Fat16 and fat are the precursors of Fat32 and are not widely used anymore. Fat32 is an older format which can be used in linux, mac and pc. The most widely used format for PC is NTFS, which is the default for most new computers. There are several formats for hard drives, ntfs, fat32, (fat16, fat), ext2, ext3, ext4, hfs, etc. The reason your TV, can not read the contents of your drive is because it is formatted with HFS, which is a format compatible with MAC but not with your TV. Mind you, there are some TVs that are to read NTFS formatted drives but in your case it is better to use Fat32 so that you mac can read it too. The advantage of FAT32, is that it can be read in different operating system like mac, linux and windows. One disadvantage of FAt32, is that it does not allow files bigger than 4GBs. Hello, If you want your TV to read your external drive it has to be formatted in FAT32. and hopefully in an easy-to-do way for laymen like me! I'm willing to accept that he may have been way off (though he said he does it, so not sure?), so now I'm looking to understand what I need to do to make this happen.ДЄny answers would be great, and in plain English speak please.

#Cannot backup to wd elements drive movie#

I'm sorry if the answers to my questions are very obvious but I'm not much for computer tech-speak, and when I went searching for the HD in the first place the guy I bought it off assured me it would be capable of doing what I want (eg, save movie files to it and watch on computer) without any issues. Very, very basic wish, but seems not a basic way to get to it! SO - what I want to be able to do is save the files to my HD, then plug it into the TV and watch them. I have seen a lot of speak about formatting to Fat32, but three issues with this - one, I don't know what this means two, I don't know how and three, I'm concerned if I do this then my Mac will no longer read the drive (or however I should technically describe this) and thus that I won't be able to actually PUT the files on the HD in the first place.

#Cannot backup to wd elements drive mac os#

The HD is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled).ДЄll three sorts of files work when I connect the HD to my computer (Mac). I have 3 sorts of files on the har drive. However, it DOES see that it the HD is there. I have the WD Elements SE portable 1TB HD and my Samsung TV won't read any of the files on it. I've seen similar posts to this but cannot figure out the answer either, so I'll ask my question afresh.