I hopes this help you, and anyone else with the same issue. **** If it doesn’t work and you need to format again you can always go back to the PC and use the ‘WD Quick Formatter’ and it will reset it as when you took it out from the box. If everything went OK, the format should be completed, and you will be able to use the External disk in both PC and iOS. (you can find detailed instructions from here: How to Format a Drive for Mac & PC Compatibility ) Open ‘Disk Utility’Ĭlicking on the Main Disk (not the secondary) click on erase an put as format: MS-DOS(FAT), and put the name of the disk. Run the ‘WD Quick Formatter.exe’ This will format again your external disk and will set it to PC format.Įject and reconnect to Mac. (Make sure you unzip the content on the indicated folder: C:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Local\Temp\wz1be1\WDSmartWare ) Unzip the file on your PC and run the program.
How to Format an External Drive Using WD Quick Formatter If the storage device isnt using one of these formats, use Disk Utility to erase and reformat the storage device. Disk Utility does not support NTFS format, which your Mac might be able to read from, but not write to. MS-DOS (FAT) or ExFat: These are Windows-compatible formats. You will need a PC with windows.įrom the PC download the ‘WD Quick Formatter For Windows’ (maybe you can actually download the mac version on your mac, but in my case I have Sierra and the software is not supported, that is why I had to use a PC)ĭownload the software from this WD article: APFS or Mac OS Extended: These are Mac formats. Long story short, I figured out how to fix it.
MediaKit reports not enough space on device for requested operation. Using the Disk Utility I erase the disk as the instructions indicate, didn’t work, I got a message: I just bought an external disk and since I own a mac I also came to this site to format the disk so I’m able to use it in my mac.
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