Can't retrieve files backed up w/ Windows from my WD MyBook Elite to a MacBook!

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Hi, you see the “No writable WD Smartware partition found” because the my book is not formatted for Mac, if you want to transfer the backup to the Mac just copy the backup folder manually, is the one that has the name smartware.swstor inside the my book. But to save files from the Mac to the My Book you need to format it and of course that will delete any information in it.