I bought a 1TB WD elements drive and when I plugged it in, the drive is locked. It didn’t prompt, it just loaded up and nothing can be copied on to it. Tried 3 different machines and still locked. Tried loading Smartware and it doesnt allow you to change settings. Suggestions welcome.
Hello,
The WD Elements does not come with that feature
post the message that you are getting
this sounds like a permissions problem
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Thanks for responding Wizer. Could you suggest how I go about resolving permission problems? I’m on a mac and I do the most obvious which is ‘command I’ on the mounted drive and under Sharing & Permissions its says "you can only read’ .
In this case you need to format the drive
the unit comes formatted for windows which is read only on Mac
format the drive and then it will be good to go
follow this steps
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If you want to use on both Mac and Windows leave it formatted NTFS and use software on the Mac http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-Portable-Drives/unwritable-drive/td-p/435872 see post 6 for some suggestions.
Joe
