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Formatting a WD Elements 1.5 TB Drive for Mac

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gcs - 16 Mar 2010 à 22:25
 nick name - 2 Jan 2013 à 15:35
Hello,
I just bought a Western Digital WD Elements 1.5 TB External hard drive, and I'm running a MacBook Pro with OS X Version 10.6.2. I'm wondering how I reformat the hard drive, which comes from the factory formatted for PC's. I'm not very computer savvy, so if someone could run me through this step by step it would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
GCS
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paulina
29 Mar 2010 à 18:32
to be able to format a WD drive for Mac OSX go to the next address and is very well explained
https://support-en.wd.com/#leopardandfriends
me too
17 Jul 2010 à 22:12
awesome, thanks!
rae
10 Aug 2010 à 17:40
this was so helpful. THANK YOU!
iddish
15 Nov 2010 à 16:18
Great stuff! *Thumbs up*
stevo
6 Feb 2011 à 03:59
thanks , very helpful ... mind you , the Snow Leopard recognised that the hard drive was there , and asked anyway ... smart machine :-)
jb
6 Jun 2011 à 18:41
Thanks Paulina - Clear and Easy.
If only WD put that in the box!!
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xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday 8 October 2008 Status Contributor Last seen 15 June 2019 1,824
16 Mar 2010 à 22:36
You can find more information at the Western Digital help site:

https://support-en.wd.com

Good Luck
gcs
16 Mar 2010 à 22:56
Thank you very much, found it after a little digging around:
https://support-en.wd.com/!!&p_li=&p_search_text=&p_topview=1
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xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday 8 October 2008 Status Contributor Last seen 15 June 2019 1,824
16 Mar 2010 à 23:00
Thanks for getting back to us with news of your success. I will mark this thread as solved.
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Dixie's_Lass
11 Jan 2011 à 08:19
One WD Elements HD reformatted for my Mac as instructed - many thanks!!!!!!
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twang
25 Nov 2010 à 05:45
THIS WAS SOOOO HELPFULL THANK YOU!!!!!!!