Step 4: Complete the information for your drive (such as new format, partition scheme, and so on) and click Erase. Step 3: Click Erase on the top of the Disk Utility window. Step 2: Select the WD My Passport for Mac drive in the left sidebar. Next, select the WD My Passport device on the list on the left side, then click Erase on the top middle of the window. Format Wd Passport For Mac And Windows Step 1: Go to Disk Utility. However I can only format the drive to FAT and not JHFS, formatting to JHFS returns the same error as described at the top of the post. Format the WD My Passport Drive In the Disk Utility window, click on the View dropdown on the top left of the window. Look for the drive and replace X with drive number. Palaeologus helped me find a solution to formatting the drive.
Newfs_hfs: write (sector 647176): Invalid argument WriteBuffer: pwrite(3, 0x104ae4000, 1048576, 331354112): Input/output error Drivers for external drives are provided by the Windows or macOS Operating System (OS) being used and are installed when an external drive is connected to the computer. Also when viewing this drive in Disk Utility there are multiple instances of this drive.įormatting disk5s1 as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with name Untitled Now I want to use this drive for my mac again but am having problems formatting this drive using disk utility to hfs.įor some reason I can read/write and format this drive fine on linux. I recently used my WD Passport for a linux system.
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