Most WD Drives come formatted in the NTFS (Windows) or HFS+ (Mac) format. For a hard drive to be able to be read and written to in both a PC If an error message is received stating that the drive is unable to be unmounted, this means that there is a program or service currently reading or writing. Hello, I have a 500gb Touro external hard drive and I originally used it for my mac, only used once. I first set it for the time machine for mac but then I disabled it. I tried formatting it with the mac but it won't let me change the format of the hard drive. The problem is, is that when I want to use it for my Windows machine it won't show up in my computer. It installs it fine with not problems and shows it as working properly, I just can't transfer files. Can anyone help, would be much appreciated. Any extra info, just ask. Hi Daniel396 The reason the drive is not showing up in windows is window can not read the mac partition. I assume that you tried looking for it under computer. You will need to format this drive to NTFS if you want to use it on windows. Perform to the following. Option one 1. Open control panel 2. Administrative Tools 3. Disk manager Now locate your HDD that you want to format. If windows know the partition type it will show this. Disk 0 c: primary NTFS disk 1 D: NTFS The mac formatted HFS will be unknown to windows will state unknown partition. Right click on the drive and select delete partition when that is finished right click and again and format it to NTFS. OR Option two There is another partition type that might suit you but it has is faults it is called exFat which enables you to use the drive with either windows or macs, but this file system I would use only for external drives. Though as you will read it not really used for HDD only flash drives. I want you to read this before deciding. Or If you want to pay for the access and not format the drive look into Macdrive9 standard 50.00 one computer If you decide to use exfat Always eject your drive before unplugging it or you will lose data. Hi Daniel396 The reason the drive is not showing up in windows is window can not read the mac partition. I assume that you tried looking for it under computer. You will need to format this drive to NTFS if you want to use it on windows. Perform to the following. Option one 1. Open control panel 2. ![]() Administrative Tools 3. Disk manager Now locate your HDD that you want to format. If windows know the partition type it will show this. Disk 0 c: primary NTFS disk 1 D: NTFS The mac formatted HFS will be unknown to windows will state unknown partition. Right click on the drive and select delete partition when that is finished right click and again and format it to NTFS. OR Option two There is another partition type that might suit you but it has is faults it is called exFat which enables you to use the drive with either windows or macs, but this file system I would use only for external drives. Though as you will read it not really used for HDD only flash drives.
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