Once done then you can see the view of the security cam on your device. Initially, you need to configure the app with the security cam. Zsight for mac. The exciting part of this app is that you can watch videos if you miss anyone because it records the videos on daily basis. Moreover, you can also take a screenshot of the video. It also includes a feature of the motion detector.
Question: Q: Format a Western Digital Elements for MAC and PC I have a new Western Digital Elements and I need to format it for Mac and PC. I have a G-Tech drive (which has content from an FCP edit) and I need to make a duplicate of the content onto the Western Digital so that the client who has a PC can open the files. In the next 5 minutes read, you will master yourself in formatting a WD My Passport safely and in a manner best suited for sharing your digital files between a macOS and Windows OS. To format a Western Digital My Passport external hard drive in ex-FAT or FAT32 format, you can bank on built-in applications of Mac & PC.
Using yourWD Elements drive for both your home Mac and work Windows PC means. A 1TB, 2TBor larger drive could make your life so much easier. Because both of your computerscan get to the same document.
After allhow else could you so easily move, look at and work on your docs on bothcomputers?
And it’squick and easy for you to do on your iMac or MacBook Pro or Air.
Oct 16, 2015 Basically the number of partitions and their storage capacity is totally up to your personal preference and needs. As for using a the HDD with both Mac OS X and Windows you have 2 options - FAT32 and exFAT. Both file systems are natively supported with. The drive is optimized for Mac. The drive was not recognized by my Dell laptop running Windows XP. After some searching I found the latest disk utility from Western Digital, Acronis True Image WD Edition. The software immediately recognized the drive and I was able to run a NTFS format that completed in less than a minute. Format your WD Elements drive for both your home Mac and work Windows PC makes your life easier. Because you can move files between both. And you can find out how here.
And you canfind out here.
Top LevelView of Formatting WD Elements for a Mac and a PC
1. Connectup your WD Elements drive to your Mac
2. You useDisk Utility. First to format your WD Elements external drive to Mac OSExtended (Journaled) file system.
3. Then youquickly follow up by formatting to ExFAT.
4. Thenyour Western Digital external hard drive is ready to use on your Mac and onyour Windows PC.
Ahead ofStarting Your WD Elements Mac and PC Formatting
You’ll needyour Mac on and you logged in.
You maywant to think about connecting your MacBook Pro or Air to external power. Why?
Because youdon’t want your Mac’s battery to fail half way through formatting your WesternDigital Elements drive. And because theUSB cable powers your Elements drive. It’s taking its power from your Mac. You’llwant to make sure there’s enough power to drive the drive.
Your WD Elements drive comes with a USB cable that has a type A connector that plugs into your Mac.
Do you havea Macbook Pro 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018? Yes?
Your Mac will have a USB C port and you’ll need an adaptor cable.
They areeasy enough to get on Amazon.
Want to find out more about connection options for your Mac? Do take a look at this article on the site.
You mayalso need to use the adaptor cable on your Windows PC if it has USB C ports onit.
All pluggedin?
Great youcan start.
How toFormat WD Elements for Mac and PC?
The stepsbelow will format your WD Elements drive so that the whole drive is shareable.This means that both your Mac and PC can see all the drive.
Side Note:Erase will wipe any files you have on your WD Elements drive. If you have files on there and you want tokeep them, copy them off onto a Windows PC first.
1. Can yousee your WD Elements external drive on your desktop?
No?
Open up afinder window. You need to change your finder window preferences.
Check theoptions to show ‘Hard Disks’ and ‘External Disks’ on your desktop.
2. Start UpDisk Utility.
You’ll find Disk Utility inside your Utilities folder. And your Utilities folder is inside your Application folder.
Open up afinder window. Type Disk Utility intothe search bar.
Click tosearch your Applications folder.
Then doubleDisk Utility in the finder window.
The yellowarrows in the above picture shows you where.
3. Pickyour Western Digital Elements Drive.
Once DiskUtility has started up you’ll see the Disk Utility pop up window.
On the lefthand side of your pop up window you’ll find the drives attached to yourMac. Your Mac’s internal disk drive is underthe heading ‘Internal’. And you’ll find your Elements drive under the‘External’ Heading. Click to select yourWD Elements drive.
Be sure topick it at the top level. The yellow arrow shows you where.
Can’t seethe different drive levels as shown in the picture?
Go to thetop left of the Disk Utility Window.
Click onView
And chooseto ‘Show all Devices’. This allows Disk Utility to show you the drive and thevolume.
Now pickyour WD Elements drive under the ‘External’ heading at the top level.
It’simportant you choose your WD Elements drive at the top level. If you don’t,you’ll have all sorts of problems formatting your Elements drive.
4. SelectErase.
At the topof your Disk Utility pop up window you’ll see a button for Erase. Click on that.
Worriedabout clicking Erase? Don’t. As the next windows shows you a bunch of thingsyou need to do first.
5. Giveyour WD Elements Hard Drive a Name.
You’ll begoing through this stage of the formatting twice. Giving the name Untitled at this point isfine.
This firsttime round you format your Elements drive to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) filesystem.
Choose thatoption for the drive format. The red arrow on the picture shows you where toclick. By clicking there you open up the up down arrows to expand the list ofavailable file formats.
Pick GUIDPartition Map for the scheme.
Then Clickon Erase on the bottom right of the pop up window.
DiskUtility now takes a few minutes to format your WD Elements drive.
Your drivewill change from NTFS to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system.
Once yourformatting is done.
6. NowFormat Your WD Elements Drive as ExFAT
Go though steps 3 and 4 again.
This timewhen naming your drive choose a name that is easy for you to remember. Onethat’ll help you know exactly what you’re using your WD Elements drivefor. Sharing between a Mac and a PC.
This timeyou select the file system format of ExFAT.
Choose theScheme as GUID Partition Map as you did before.
7. Click toErase.
You Clickon Erase on the bottom right hand corner of the pop up window.
And in afew minutes your WD Elements drive is ExFAT formatted ready for you to use onyour Mac and Windows PC.
Your WDElements drive will be on your Mac’s Desktop under the name you gave it.
Now yourentire WD Elements external hard drive is in a format both computers can use.
You cancreate folders. Copy files from your Mac onto your Elements drive.
Plug yourWestern Digital Elements drive into your PC. Work on documents on the drive and put docs from your PC onto the drive.
And whenyou plug back into your Mac your Mac can see and use those files.
What if youwant a separate area on Your WD Elements drive for Mac and PC?
You would dothis by creating partitions on the hard drive.
Think ofpartitions as slicing your WD Elements drive into different size pieces. And youuse each piece for different things.
Say you maywant two partitions.
One partition for your Time Machine back up of your Mac.
And anotherfor both Mac and your PC to share files.
Thepartition that you want your Mac to use for backup you format as Mac OS Extended(Journaled) file system.
YourWindows PC will not see that partition when you plug your Elements drive intoyour PC.
Thepartition you want to share with both Mac and Windows you partition as ExFAT.
To FormatYour WD Elements With a Partition for Mac and PC
1. Follow steps 1 through to 5 above.
Your whole drive is now formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system.
Once youhave formatted your Western Digital Elements drive …
2. In DiskUtility, Click on Partition.
At the topof your Disk Utility screen you’ll see the button to partition.
Click onit.
This timeDisk Utility shows you the partition pop up Window.
3. Createyour first Partition.
Give yourpartition a name. In this example our first partition is for a Time Machinebackup. You could call it Time Machine. Makes it easy to remember.
Just like whenyou formatted choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system. And the Scheme asGUID Partition Map.
4. Click the+ button under the large circle.
The largecircle is a picture showing your whole disk. When you click + you’re tellingDisk Utility to create a second partition. Disk Utility splits your WD Elements drive into two equal parts.
5. Click onthe New Partition.
Click onthe picture of your WD Elements drive. Click on the side of the picture withyour unnamed partition.
Give thepartition you plan to share a name.
ChooseExFAT for the format. And GUID Partition Map for the scheme.
6. Don’twant Equal sizes?
If youdon’t want a 50/50 split. Then you can type in the size you want eitherpartition to be. Right there on the screen where it says size.
The picturewill move and adjust to show you the percentage each partition has.
7. ClickApply.
When you’rehappy press Apply.
Your Macwill create the partitions, and format them as you want. And after a shortwhile your partitioning is done.
How To Format Wd Elements Hard Drive For Mac
And yourpartitions will appear on your Mac’s desktop as drive icons.
You candouble click on them to open up finder windows. Finder windows that you cancopy and paste to and drag and drop to.
Why Doesn’tYour WD Elements Drive Work Out of the Box on your Mac and PC?
Western Digital ships the Elements external hard drive formatted as NTFS.
This meansyour PC will be able to use the drive right away.
Your Mac can read the files on an NTFS formatted WD Elements drive but can’t update those files. Or put more files on the Elements Drive.
ExFATluckily is a file format that both your Windows PC and your Mac can use.
Plug yourWD Elements drive into either and they can see all the files on the drive. Notonly that, they can write files onto the drive.
This makesthe drive completely shareable.
Saving youmoney because you won’t have to use a more complicated way to share files.
And all thefiles you want to use are right there on the one drive.
Last Words
And now you can relax because you have your WD Elements drive formatted for your Mac and PC. Success. You’ve formatted your WD Elements for a Mac and PC. And now you can get on with sharing your files between them both.
You’ll find other documents here all about your WD Elements drive. Please take a look.
I’ve seen similar posts to this but cannot figure out the answer either, so I’ll ask my question afresh.
I have the WD Elements SE portable 1TB HD and my Samsung TV won’t read any of the files on it. However, it DOES see that it the HD is there.
I have 3 sorts of files on the har drive – .avi, .mv4 and .mp4.
The HD is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
All three sorts of files work when I connect the HD to my computer (Mac).
I have seen a lot of speak about formatting to Fat32, but three issues with this – one, I don’t know what this means; two, I don’t know how and three, I’m concerned if I do this then my Mac will no longer read the drive (or however I should technically describe this) and thus that I won’t be able to actually PUT the files on the HD in the first place.
SO – what I want to be able to do is save the files to my HD, then plug it into the TV and watch them. Very, very basic wish, but seems not a basic way to get to it!
I’m sorry if the answers to my questions are very obvious but I’m not much for computer tech-speak, and when I went searching for the HD in the first place the guy I bought it off assured me it would be capable of doing what I want (eg, save movie files to it and watch on computer) without any issues.
I’m willing to accept that he may have been way off (though he said he does it, so not sure?), so now I’m looking to understand what I need to do to make this happen.
Any answers would be great, and in plain English speak please… and hopefully in an easy-to-do way for laymen like me!
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i foud the best way to sort this is, i did 3 partitions on my ext hard drive.
one with Mac OS Extended (case sensitive Journaled)
second & third with MS Dos (Fat)use the mac one for time machine
second Fat one for pics & music to viw on samsung tv.third Fat one i let samsung tv re-format it so that i can also use it as pvr for recording tv.it works great-
You're a genius!
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Hello, If you want your TV to read your external drive it has to be formatted in FAT32. One disadvantage of FAt32, is that it does not allow files bigger than 4GBs. The advantage of FAT32, is that it can be read in different operating system like mac, linux and windows. Mind you, there are some TVs that are to read NTFS formatted drives but in your case it is better to use Fat32 so that you mac can read it too.The reason your TV, can not read the contents of your drive is because it is formatted with HFS, which is a format compatible with MAC but not with your TV. There are several formats for hard drives, ntfs, fat32, (fat16, fat), ext2, ext3, ext4, hfs, etc. The most widely used format for PC is NTFS, which is the default for most new computers. Fat32 is an older format which can be used in linux, mac and pc. Fat16 and fat are the precursors of Fat32 and are not widely used anymore. Ext2,3,4 are formats compatible with linux. Hfs is compatible with mac.If you want to format your external hard drive to Fat32 in a mac you can use the mac utilities to format it. Before doing that, make sure to copy any files you have in your hard drive to a folder in your mac. Once you format a drive, you loose all the information on it. You can do the following to format drive:-- connect external to mac
-- go to Applications
-- select utilities
-- select disk utility
-- click on partition
belonging to your external hard drive
-- select the partition (there should be only one)
-- choose msdos(fat) as your format
-- click on
applyOnce your external is formatted with Fat32, copy/move the files back to your external from your mac. Once that is donw, all you have to do is connect your external hard drive to your TV and provided the files in your drive are compatible with TV, it should be able to read files and you should be able to view your movies.You would have to read in the TV's manual about the formats that the TV recognizes. I am sure that .avi an mp4 should be read by your TV. I am not sure about .mv4.-
My External Harddrive is formated to NTFS and plays videos of my HD ..however it fails to open up some folders which contain videos in them. it presents an error sign saying the folder cannot be opened have any ideas in which why this maybe the case ..funny enough my friend has a samsung tv of a lower model d5000 which plays all these vids with no issue despite it being formatted to NTFS whilse mine the d8000 fails to do so
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Hello, what kind of files are stored in the folder your Tv cannot open?
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If you read through your HDTVs manual you will find that it only supports FAT32 ~ maybe also NTFS.Mac OS Extended Journal (HFS+) is a proprietary file system and even a Windows PC can't read it without the appropriate tools or drivers installed ~ let alone a TV.I'm afraid you will have to reformat your Hard Drive
* This will delete all data on the drive1. open up Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities/
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2. select your external drive ('1TB WD Elements' or whatever it is called)
3. click on the Partition tab
4. select the following settings:
Partition Layout: 1 Partition
Format: MS-DOS (FAT)
the name will change to 'UNTITLED' but you can change it to whatever you want
click the Options button at the bottom and select 'Master Boot Record'When everything is set click Apply at the bottom right.
Again, this will delete all data from the drive so you will want to backup it beforehand.-
This works great for me! Thanks so much for the advice!
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