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Dunno if I should start a new topic with this - but I purchased a MyBook Mirror Edition 2Tb (2x1Tb) drive. I want to be able to SHARE data between my XP laptop and iMac and I want it set to Raid1 (mirror) as I’m using it as a work drive and want the instant redundancy.The Mirrored drive was reformatted Fat32 off a Mac and you guessed it, XP recognizes it but it won’t assign a drive letter or browse the drive. After MUCH googling I’ve determined that I have to reformat Fat 32 on the XP machine.BUT - how do I do that and keep the drive’s mirrored setting? The Disk and Raid manager utilities in the mac version gave an option for Fat32, but the windows one doesn’t. If I format it using Windows, won’t it just give me a 2Tb Fat32 drive?To restate my question - What’s the process to set up a RAID1 (mirrored), FAT32 drive under Windows XP?TIA,John. With a little help I seem to have answered the question:“How do I set-up a MyBook to FAT32, RAID1 (mirror) so that I can read and write on both Mac and PC?”Here are the steps - be prepared to wipe the drive clean.On the PC, use the Western Digital Disk Management Utility to format the drive as RAID1. (NTFS is the only option here under Windows).Using the XP Disk Management utility (under Computer Management), select the disk, initialize the drive, but DON’T FORMAT!3.

Reformatting a Western Digital My Passport hard drive to function well on Windows. Download and install the Western Digital FAT32 Formatting Utility.

1. Most WD Drives come formatted in the NTFS (Windows) or HFS+ (macOS) format. For a hard drive to be able to be read from and written to on both a Windows and macOS computer, it must be formatted to ExFAT or FAT32 file format. FAT32 has several limitations, including a 4 GB per-file limit.
2. I have a 2tb wd external drive formatted for windows that I want to re-format to Fat32 so I can attach it to my Airport Extreme router and use it for storage. It will all be windows based material, but the airport will not recognize it unless it is formatted to Fat32. Or any other advice on how to get the airport to recognize it.

Move to the Mac. Use the Mac OS Disk Utility to format the drive to MS-DOS FAT32. Check to be sure you can read and write to the drive.

Voice recorder. If it’s a large file, then this process should not be your choice, but if its small, then this is the most convenient way.To begin transferring files:1. Go to the Voice Memo app on your iPhone2.

Wierdness alert! The WD disk management utility may show the file system as HFS+, but double checking the Mac will verify that it is FAT32. Check the drive on the PC.Please post if you’ve found this successful. I will be testing the drive with a boatload of data before relying on it, but it seems to be working fine after several reads and writes on both platforms. The capacity and available space are in sync.Good luck.

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I am having serious problems trying to format my new 4Tb portable Seagate hard drive to Fat32 or exfat with a Master Boot Record Scheme. I have tried on my mac using disk utility, however, when partitioning almost all options are grayed out. I tried using windows, and have run into similar issues, and most of the time can only format to NTFS. I have gone through customer support for Apple and for Windows and neither could help me. The apple tech support said that if I used an old version of Disk Utility before they changed it, then I could solve my problem. Does anyone know how to do this? Hey there, @LuukeAtMe!Unfortunately, you need to be aware of some file system first!

You need to initialize the external drive with, in order to be able to use the full 4 TB capacity. FAT32 file system restricts you to a 2 TB volume size, so you can try making two 2 TB partitions, yet again, I'm not sure if it will work.I'd recommend you consider using the NTFS file system (However, ). You should still be able to read the data off the external on the Mac OS computer and depending on the X OS version, you can even write to it. Keep in mind that you won't be able to transfer files larger than 4 GB between the Mac and the PC.Hope this helps you! Let me know if you have more questions.SuperSophWD. Hey there, @LuukeAtMe!Unfortunately, you need to be aware of some file system first!

You need to initialize the external drive with, in order to be able to use the full 4 TB capacity. FAT32 file system restricts you to a 2 TB volume size, so you can try making two 2 TB partitions, yet again, I'm not sure if it will work.I'd recommend you consider using the NTFS file system (However, ). You should still be able to read the data off the external on the Mac OS computer and depending on the X OS version, you can even write to it. Keep in mind that you won't be able to transfer files larger than 4 GB between the Mac and the PC.Hope this helps you! Let me know if you have more questions.SuperSophWDYes, I know about the limitations, thats what I've been having problems with, but I was hoping someone knew of a way to get the two 2Tb partitions as you were talking about. It just seems that it might not be possible.

The reason I want it MBR is because I want my PS4 to be able to read it as well as my mac, and windows. Hey there again, @LuukeAtMe!I'm afraid that you will be limited to the 2 TB capacity max, since you need the HDD to be configured with the MBR partition table. One way to avoid wasting the other 2 TB of the capacity would be to get a smaller (2 TB) external drive and use it on all these computers & devices and re-initialize the 4 TB external in GPT and NTFS/HFS+ and use it for backup of all the files from the PS4 to the Mac and Windows computers. Having multiple copies of your most precious files is the surest way to avoid any potential data loss. This is going to put the 4 TB external HDD to good use and not waste the storage capacity.Best of luck!SuperSophWD.