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WD TV - Software Workaround

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Firstly, apologies if this has been covered before, but the term WD and TV are too short for the search feature.

I bought a WD (Western Digital) TV box to play movies and TV shows from an external hard drive. Unfortunately the software is only available for Windoze, which wasn't made clear on the packaging, so the on-screen display lacks the navigability it is meant to have.
Does anyone know of a workaround for this?

Thanks.
 
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I presume your drive is OS X HFS+ journaled

It says it will work with OS X HFS+ without journaling, so you may have to just reformat the external drive to HFS+
 
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OK- I think I get all that. Do I have to take everything off the drive before I format it to HFS+?

Thanks.
 

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