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Question about My Book Essential Edition (WDG1U5000N) 500 GB Hard Drive

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...format not FAT32. Im sure you can use it now to both Mac and PC. You want to make the drive FAT32. Both Mac and PC can read and write to FAT32 drives. Macs cannot write to NTFS drives, but they can ...

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Question about My Book Essential 1TB External USB 2.0 Hard Drive

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format as FAT32 has lots of limitations in cluster size and total drive size. The issue with your DVD- Media Player has nothing to do with how you formatted an external 1TB HDD. It's possible that the

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Question about My Book Essential Edition (WDG1U5000N) 500 GB Hard Drive

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FAT32 I not able to format my WD MyBook Elite to FAT32. Using FAT32 these days on a current OS will half the HDD storing capabilities especially if your unit uses' a SATA HDD , FAT32 speed compared to

Question about Passport WDXML800UE (WDXML800UETE) 80 GB Hard Drive

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...FAT32 to format the hard drive so it works on both PC and mac. I have problems with the size limits on the files I can back up (max 4 GB, and I understand that that is a limitation with the FAT32 ...

Question about My Book Essential 1TB External USB 2.0 Hard Drive

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FAT32. Or just format part of it in FAT32 and the rest of it in NTFS. The PS3 should then recognize the partitions that are in FAT32. Please give feedback as to if this was helpful or not and choose a

Question about Passport WDXML800UE (WDXML800UETE) 80 GB Hard Drive

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...try to change the format of your hard drive to FAT32. Better yet since it is a 1TB try to create a partition one NTFS and one FAT32 because FAT32 cannot go beyond 4GB for files. Hope this

Question about My Book Essential Edition (WDG1U5000N) 500 GB Hard Drive

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...FAT32 rarely read\recognize NTFS. I don't think you are able to format\install Windows Me in NTFS. You can try to use Disk Management to reformat your "My Book" in FAT32, but you will likely have ...

Question about Caviar SE WD800JD SATA Hard Drive

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...format in Fat32 format this HDD Open My Computer icon on the desktop. locate the hard disk you wish to format in FAT32. Make sure is not your main drive where windows was installed which is Drive C: ...

Question about Wd Elements Se 1tb Portable Black Wdbabv0010 USB 20 Hard Drive

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...format it to FAT32, could you please advise me on how to do this so I can use it on my PS3? Many thanks Siane Minard For Windows: Plug the external drive into your main computer. Open up My Computer, ...

Question about WD Elements Desktop WDBAAU0015HBK - hard drive - 1.5 TB - Hi-Speed USB USB 2.0

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can convert FAT32 to NTFS, but you cannot reverse this process. If you want to set up the hard drive for FAT32 you need to delete the NTFS partition the create a new partition and then format in FAT32

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