Look for the External Hard Drive Icon on your Desktop. The WD My Passport gets its power from the Mac and the drive’s LED light will start flashing as it powers up. Am following ‘Welcome to WD Support’ website directions and get to step 4, erasing files, but it is not clear whether one or all files are to be erased, and when attempt to erase the first (Mac OS Extended Journaled) just keep getting response ‘Erase process has failed. Trying to format new ‘My Passport’ backup on iMac Desktop running Sierra Ver. How to format a My Passport Ultra for macOS Sierra? WD External Drives.
What do I need to know to be able to plug in my new My Passport Ultra and get started wi Hullo! I see that instructions for formatting a drive for various macOS are available here, but that Sierra is not listed. When I attached this new drive, it showed up in the finder right away, but when I right-clicked and selected “get info” it showed that I had “read only” permission and didn’t show the padlock for.
I have a MacBook Pro, and I already have four working My Passport 2 TB drives that I use regularly with it as well as a 4 TB MyBook. I just purchased a 4 TB My Passport Ultra from Amazon.
