It shows the disk 1TB at the bottom of the screen in BLACK = Unallocated Above shows my active C drive and DVD ROM and a SD CARD all in BLUE What next? The key is I DONT want to lose the data on the disk just as a reminder.
My Passport for Mac. Product Overview (PDF) User Manual (PDF) Product Features. Register your product. How to format a WD hard drive to exFAT or FAT32 file system Answer ID 291| This answer explains how to format a drive in the exFAT or FAT32 file system. This allows the drive to be used on both Windows and macOS. Can't get Windows to view my 1TB My Passport EXT HD. Create an account on Neowin to contribute and support the site. Data from the mac partition and reformat drive to something windows.
Right click the drive in disk management, go to properties, click the volumes tab, what does it say for partition style? And is it showing the whole 1tb as unallocated? This could mean windows doesn't understand the partition table,so check that out and let me know what it says. Windows recognizes MBR and GPT partitions.
It could be that your drive is using the Apple Partition Map,which isn't supported in windows. If so ill check what to do to remedy this situation. Is drive ok?can you go back to a mac and see your data? If not it is a hardware issue and you will have to have a data recovery performed if you can see your data on a mac then.
You have 2 partitions with the boot partition being mac os journaled. You have 2 choices to see your data.find a piece of software so windows can read the drive hfs explorer comes to mind or find a mac and copy files say to a dvd and after you got all your data safe reformat entire drive in a file system windows can use then put data back on good luck. Is drive ok?can you go back to a mac and see your data? If not it is a hardware issue and you will have to have a data recovery performed hey the drive is okay.
Im using a friends computer at work to transfer the NTFS files to another Windows formatted drive and its going.but its slow. I just want to be able to see the drive in windows.its so weird to me. WHAT YOU WROTE BELOW IS CORRECT. If you can see your data on a mac then. You have 2 partitions with the boot partition being mac os journaled. You have 2 choices to see your data.find a piece of software so windows can read the drive hfs explorer comes to mind or find a mac and copy files say to a dvd and after you got all your data safe reformat entire drive in a file system windows can use then put data back on My real goal is to plug in the drive into windows and see the NTFS portion of the drive.i have used the HFS Explorer and I can see the OSx portion of the drive.
Hello Zanaelf If you look at the format of the external hard drive, it is probable setup to NTFS and is something that Macs can read and copy from but cannot write to it. The only way you can do that is to reformat the drive to either so that it will be for Macs to write to or you can format it to FAT and it can read and write to both. Check out the articles below for more information. Also check out the other discussion that I provided as another user found a 3rd party piece of software that may assist you further if you do not want to reformat the drive. Regards, -Norm G. Thank you very much, obviously it is what I feared, a forced reformat of the passport drive to FAT 32. Unfortuantely I cant do that at the moment because I would have to buy another 1TB drive just to back the files up, and do not have money to spend like that for another 2 or 3 months.
However, I have found a way to work around this is to install a micrisoft windows operating system on the make via a virtual machine, where your mac and the virtual machine are like intergrated, so that the desktop on the Mac is shared to the desktop on the virtual PC inside the mac. Then move the NTFS drive to be connected to the virtual pc, and then drag and drop the files or copy and pase them from the mac onto the drive that is connected to the virtual pc, which is connected physically to on your Mac's USB. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.
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