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Formatting WD external hard drive issues
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<blockquote data-quote="harryb2448" data-source="post: 1427543" data-attributes="member: 42497"><p>G'day and welcome to the forums.</p><p></p><p>When connected to the MB can you see the drive in the left hand pane of Disk Utility?</p><p></p><p>If so select the drive by highlighting, go to erase, format Mac OS Extended (Journalled) and erase. Then into Partition, make one single partition and under Options make sure GUID partition table is selected.</p><p></p><p>If you get it formatted suggest using SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the internal to the external which will be an exact copy, and will be bootable in case of emergency.</p><p></p><p>Personal favour SuperDuper as the restored offers a say weekly Smart Backup which takes about three minutes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="harryb2448, post: 1427543, member: 42497"] G'day and welcome to the forums. When connected to the MB can you see the drive in the left hand pane of Disk Utility? If so select the drive by highlighting, go to erase, format Mac OS Extended (Journalled) and erase. Then into Partition, make one single partition and under Options make sure GUID partition table is selected. If you get it formatted suggest using SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the internal to the external which will be an exact copy, and will be bootable in case of emergency. Personal favour SuperDuper as the restored offers a say weekly Smart Backup which takes about three minutes. [/QUOTE]
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