Fix a Western Digital My Book drive formatting problem
Sep 10, '08 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: bschmwsii
Sep 10, '08 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: bschmwsii
Twice now I have had problems formatting a new Western Digital My Book external drive under 10.5.x. Disk Utility fails to format the drive as Max OS X Extended Journaled with a "Format failed..." message. The first time this happened, I found an obscure firmware update at Western Digital's forums. This time, I found a quicker solution in this thread over at macForums. Here's a short executive summary version:
- Open Disk Utility and select your drive.
- Go to the Partition tab, name the drive as you wish, and choose one partition. Partition the drive.
- Select the partition you just created. Go to Options (on the bottom of the dialog window) and select GUID Partition Table/OK, then click Apply.
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