I have a 1TB My Book WD and I tried to reformat it for mac through Disc Utilities. I use the erase/reformat function, but it said there was an error and now when I try to bring it up on my mac, all that comes up is the WD Smartware but no hard drive. Did I erase it? How do I get it back?? Please hel…

Go to Disk Utility again, if the drive is seen click on the one that shows the capacity and the name of the drive, then instead of going to erase go to partition, on partition do this: Volume Scheme - Select 1 Partition on the drop down menu Rename the drive, delete untiltled 1 and use another…

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I tried to reformat my My Book for mac but I think I erased it!

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Joe_S October 14, 2011, 7:15pm 9

FAT 32 is also more prone to corruption that other formats.

Joe