My Book Essential - Works on Mac, can't see on PC

WD External Drives External Drives for PC
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Hello,

the My Book Essential works on my Mac, but when I try to access the files on a PC, it doesn’t show up under “removeable drives.” However, it appears in Device Manager.

I’ve downloaded the driver, but to no avail.

I’m currently trying to connect to a Windows XP PC.

Thanks,

Barbara

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If the drive is formatted for Mac it will not be visible on Windows without some software.

Joe

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What software do I need?

I installed WD SmartWare on the PC, but I assume you mean I need to install software directly on the drive?

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The drives use different formats I guess you could call them file systems. I don’t know much about Macs most software for this is pay. I did see this free one http://www.catacombae.org/hfsx.html Do you intend to use the drive on both Mac and Windows? If not you can simply reformat it for Windows NTFS that will wipeout all data on it.

Joe