Comments on: The Secret to Reformatting a Western Digital WD 1TB My Book External Hard Drive http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/ The personal blog of Adam Nash Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:08:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Joyce Lazarus http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-31193 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:45:30 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-31193 I realize this is an old post but I’ve gotten myself into quite a fix. I purchased a 1T WD external hard drive for my iMac 10.7.2 but didn’t format it or partition it. Due to a series of apparent blunders, I can’t access anything I’ve copied to the WD nor can I unmount it (either on this mac or any of my other macs) Disk Utility will not allow me to partition or erase the drive because it is unable to unmount the disk. I’ve closed all applications, rebooted the computer, the finder, etc.. there seems to be no interference as far as applications go and I’m completely flummoxed. Can you possibly help me figure this out?
Many thanks,
Joyce

]]> By: Sonya M http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-30833 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:20:30 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-30833 Thank you, thank you, thank you.

]]> By: Jake Melgar http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-30788 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:37:07 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-30788 Adam: You saved me a load of grief. I ran into the error message head-on and quickly did a search and found your post. It could’ve been ugly and you prevented a really bad night from transpiring.

Sincere thanks, Jake

]]> By: tomgirlbc (@tomgirlbc) http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-30345 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:00:25 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-30345 I am having trouble with my black Macbook, have installed the hd, and that is where I sit, I tried to do it all my self, to save some money, but did you install the same thing by any chance, thanks

]]> By: tomgirlbc (@tomgirlbc) http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-30344 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:38:40 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-30344 okay i am still having an issue, my bf put in my new hard drive, in my black Macbook, then i did the put in the disc, held down the c key bla bla, now I am at the part where it won’t recognise anywhere to save it , i go into utility and then disc utility and on the left side, i see, the maox instal disc 1 and two other hard drives, i pick one of them and see where i click option, but then nothing else, so not sure, I am ready to pull out my hair if anyone can help, i will check back, i will sign in with my twitter so if anyone can tweet me or something, I am going bonkers, thanks, i bought my hard drive at london drugs, its 500gb, i believe

]]> By: how can see what data is in an internal Western Digital hard drive without putting it into a computer tower? http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-30215 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:24:23 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-30215 [...] Caviar Black 1 TB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 3.5 Inch, 32 MB Cache, 7200 RPM SATA II WD1001FALS Review.The Secret to Reformatting a Western Digital WD 1TB My Book External Hard Drive [...]

]]> By: Gregory Jones http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-30085 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:59:04 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-30085 Thank you. I’m not going to say I love you, but I would friend you on facebook. Thanks, guy!

]]> By: Richard England http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-30058 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:13:23 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-30058 Kudos yet again! Worked with a WD 3tb drive

]]> By: Karan Madan http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-30027 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 04:41:26 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-30027 This is a great external hard drive for expanding your digital storage capacity. I was in need for added storage and wanted to go for the 2TB WD Elements External Hard Drive. I wasn’t really happy with the prices I was seeing for the 2TB hard drive, and that is when I decided to check up on the 1.5TB drives. WOW! I was amazed at the price Amazon was offering these drives and I got two of them. Yes, two! (My work requires that kind of storage space)
I got 3TB worth of storage for the price of a 2TB External hard drive!

That said, let us talk about the performance of these drives –

1) Build and form factor – Nice sleek looking enclosures. All black, the sides are fingerprint magnets with a glossy finish. The top and bottom panels have a matte finish. Looks matter to me, even if it just an external drive. The microUSB and AC sockets are closely spaced with a small white indicator light besides them. All in all very compact, sleek, and aesthetically pleasing device.
2) Performance – I am getting constantly good speeds on these drives. Reads at 30MB/s and writes at about 24MB/s, which is good and fast enough for my needs.

As always, users have to be careful with all hard drives, internal or external. I am handling my drives with the utmost care. I don’t want to lose any important data.

Finally, this drive is a complete value for money purchase. I say go for it if you are out looking for a large capacity external hard drive.

]]> By: toumai http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-29949 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:09:55 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-29949 brilliant on both the initial post and RJL …now to UNMOUNT is the issue… alas

]]> By: RJL http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-29804 Thu, 26 May 2011 09:01:51 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-29804 The easiest way to reformat a Western Digital hard drive for the MAC is to:
1) plug in WD external drive to computer via USB
2) go to System Preferences > Time Machine
3) select disk
4) choose the WD external hard drive
5) click on Back Up
6 a prompt will come up asking you to ERASE so the hard drive can be formated for a MAC

Done.

Your external is now formated and ready to use.

]]> By: Jules http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-29461 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:06:54 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-29461 Thank you so much for this information! I was having so many issues. I have several smaller external harddrives from WD and when I bought this because it was Mac friendly… All the others were plug-in and go… I really appreciate it :) Happy New Year.

]]> By: Julia http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-29436 Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:38:31 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-29436 Thank you for sharing this, I was going bonkers trying to figure out what I was doing ‘wrong’. Merry Christmas!

]]> By: david c http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-29111 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 03:23:43 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-29111 I’m following all the steps including GUID and I’m still getting a failure error: permission denied. The info on the drive shows read and write permission for everyone (but the lock is greyed out). I have a 1TB and a 2TB and can’t format either. I’m on 10.5.1 intel based mac. Could my disc utility be bad?

]]> By: Sara http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-28942 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:26:31 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-28942 Thank you thank you thank you!

]]> By: Jasmyn http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-28885 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:23:15 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-28885 Thankyou So much, My housemate spent ages trying to get his to work, and with a little research this has helped me immensely, Although without his error first, I would have spent a long time trying to figure out what the problem was.

]]> By: Ronald Bradford http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-28773 Sun, 30 May 2010 03:32:48 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-28773 Your the man! Thanks

http://twitter.com/ronaldbradford/status/15017056824

]]> By: Ralphie http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-28758 Sat, 22 May 2010 03:13:27 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-28758 thanks so much – this definitely helped me alot :D

]]> By: Natalie http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-28755 Wed, 19 May 2010 17:32:25 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-28755 THANK YOU!

For once Mac is complicated. Who knew?

]]> By: Amber Collins http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-28622 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:09:24 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-28622 If you had to choose between a Seagate, Western Digital, or a Samsung hard drive, which would it be? Which do you consider the most reliable out of them? I had a WD that went to crap on me after about 6 months, so I’m a bit leery of them.

]]> By: Matt http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-28564 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:48:27 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-28564 Well i am very very unexperienced with computers and am having a lot of difficulty. How do I create a partition or get the partition map or whatever. I really want to start using this hard drive but i am not very experienced so if someone could help me out step-by-step i would be very greatful. Thanks

]]> By: R2 http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-27460 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:13:23 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-27460 Thanks for making my night shorter!!! Doing a backup before I install Snow Leopard…Merry Christmas!

]]> By: BiiPiiGii http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-27414 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:49:33 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-27414 Well, this simple yet incredibly effecting manor in reformatting such an investment has proven itself AWESOME. I thank you for writing this article, if it is okay with you; I’d actually like to write an article on this as well. Thank you.

]]> By: Galen http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-26999 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:08:51 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-26999 THANKS!!!!!

]]> By: motoyen http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-26838 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:03:13 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-26838 Thanks for the tip! Installing Snow Leopard tonight and couldn’t figure out why my external back up drive wasn’t mounting on the desk top. Was just about to take out back and shoot it before I found this tip.

]]> By: Juan Carlos Alicea http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-26457 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:58:37 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-26457 It still works. Thanks.

]]> By: kollektor http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-26393 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:28:41 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-26393 Thanks, Adam. It might be simple but I never would have got there without this tip.

]]> By: maxnepstad http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-26227 Sun, 17 May 2009 19:25:38 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-26227 You’re a lifesaver, thank you!

]]> By: Glen http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-26143 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:45:17 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-26143 Huzzah! Yes, it is a popular post – for a reason. It works! Thanks for posting this. And, just fyi – this was the first search engine result on Google when I was looking for a solution. And well worth it.

]]> By: Mike Goitein http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/01/26/the-secret-to-reformatting-a-western-digital-wd-1tb-my-book-external-hard-drive/#comment-26017 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:45:47 +0000 http://psychohistory.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-26017 Adam – Nailed it. Props to you, my intelligent friend. You’re a godsend to Mac geeks worldwide. Cheers!

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