Format Wd Elements For Mac Time Machine

MacConvert54

I have a 4TB WD My Passport for Mac that I connect via USB primarily for Time Machine. I first used the drive only for Time Machine and it worked fine for a couple days. I then decided to use some of the space for external file storage and copied several GB of files to it from another drive. Time Machine continued to work fine all day. ” The format Apple support for Mac owners for Time machine is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). FAT32: The FAT32 file system (MS-DOS FAT) released in 1977. FAT32 is the cross-platform format for Windows and Mac OS X. The format is good for handling the files between both OS under 4GB size. The USB drivers come with the FAT format by default.

Joined: Dec 26, 2008

Messages: 23

Reaction score: 0

Points: 1

Reformat Wd Elements

This is my first time using Time Machine. I purchased a 500 gb portable hard drive (Western Digital) which is mac compatible. When I got it, it I loaded all of my files from my pc onto the hard drive. I have transferred some of the files (mostly pictures and documents) to my MacBook hard drive. When I connected my portable hard drive and opened up Time Machine, I located the Western Digital drive fine but it said it needed to be reformatted and that it will erase all of the files on the hard drive. I think there are some files on it that are necessary to run the hard drive so I'm nervous about deleting them. Can I delete them and still have the hard drive run properly? Should I just transfer all of the remaining files to my laptop and then use the Time Machine program? I want to be able to periodically back up all of my files on the portable hard drive.

Format WD Elements for Mac and PC, Have your Drive for Both. WD Elements Time Machine, Turn ON Your Backup. 1 - purchase a second hard drive, format the new hard drive in HFS+, transfer the files from the NTFS drive into the new HFS+ external, and then format the old NTFS drive to HFS+, ExFAT, or FAT32. When you format WD elements for Time Machine be sure to format it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system. And with a partition map as GUID. If you’ve not done that yet go over to my document “ Format WD Elements for Mac.