If your My Passport drive shows up in the list go ahead and format. Step 5 Thereafter, click on the “Erase” button and let the system erase everything on the drive and reformat WD elements for Mac by exFAT or FAT32 format. When trying to set up the Elements on my MacBook Pro, it wouldn’t erase, so I tried to format anyway for ExFAT. Select a format from the 'Format' drop-down menu beneath the 'Name' text field, for example, 'Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)' or 'MSDOS (Fat).' Got a message that the format attempt failed due to not enough space on the device.
I wanted to transfer these mp3s to a friends wd drive that she has given me, but she has a PC, I have tried to open my drive on my sons pc but being mac formatted it doesnt mount on the desktop whereas the friends new … Method 2: format WD Elements for Mac with a free format tool.
