How To Access My Passport For Mac On Macbook 2011 Average ratng: 5,0/5 7282 votes

Lregracie wrote: I tried that version, but kept getting error messages, telling me to hook the drive up to a Windows system, fix the the disc and try again. I did that (multiple times), and it still wouldn’t mount the drive. How did you unmount the drive from the Windows system? If you didn’t use the “Safely Remove” icon in the System Tray, you will have problems, Lregracie wrote: This is what finally worked: Of course I used the trial, but unless I Can figure out how to make the freebiw work, I’ll end up having to buy this one. Anyway, problem solved for the moment, but still open for suggestions.

I have a My passport 1TB HDD for Mac in which i have a lot of data. 2 days back i sold my Macbook Pro and might take a month before i buy a Macbook Air. Laser printer for mac 2017. The My Passport Studio and My Passport for Mac are the latest portable drives from Western Digital. They are both designed for Mac, though can be easily reformatted to work with Windows.

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You need to format it as FAT32. In the mac, there's a program called 'Disk Utility', in the utilities folder in your applications folder. Open it, click the drive, after backing everything up, click format, choose the type as FAT32.

How To Access My Passport For Mac On Macbook 2011

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Ah, yes I can now see there is a commercial upgrade available. The free version (download from Apple) is working fine for me (when I correctly unmount the drive from Windows). I may look at the commercial version, though, as it is meant to have performance enhancements. I did some testing and the commercial version is significantly faster, at least for writing. I tested copying a larg file (20GB) from the internal drive to an external disk with NTFS over FW800 and it took up to 4 times longer with NTFS-3G than with the trial version from Tuxera. Similarly, copying 100 files totalling 1.2GB was around 3 times longer with NTFS-3G. In fact, I found that I was getting around the same times with the trial version of NTFS from Tuxera as I was to a HPS+ partition on the same drive.