“disk2s1” now appears in grey in the sidebar where “easystore” used to be in black. And at the other end, the end that connects to a computer has a USB A connection. Its enough to know that the different USB standards define the speed the drive works at.Please help!Step 1: Go to Finder > Preferences > General tab. Perhaps this is an easy fix but I feel like I’m going insane and I don’t know what to do. I’ve tried partitioning the drive into 7.75GB/0.25GB.
Format A Wd Passport Portable 2 TBAlso running 10.13.2.See more: Operation Could Not Be Completed Access Is Denied, The Operation Could Not Be CompletedOK, here’s what fixed this for me.Open Disk Utility (not in Recovery Mode) and change the View drop-down (upper left corner) to Show All Devices. Nothing works trying to erase the disk - not the proper Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format or any other formats erase, although it opens a box that says it is erasing.I have had the exact same problem this evening. Using Disk Utility the HD shows as disk3s1 (yours is disk2s1). This came up with Time Machine, but then Time Machine doesn’t see the HD. Step 3: Go to Sidebar tab, tick External disks under Devices to show your WD Passport hard drive for Mac in Finder.Mount Point: Not MountedCapacity: 8TBAvailable: Zero KBUsed: –Type: USB External Physical VolumeOwners: DisabledConnection: USBDevice: disk2s1I bought a brand new classiccomputers.info Easystore portable 2 TB HD in October, 2017, and just now, 5 January,2018, opened the package and tried to use with my iMac 5k Retina 27 inch, Late 2014 desktop computer, also running OS 10.13.2.You watching: Format wd easystore for macI am getting the same fail message you are - “MediaKit reports not enough space on device for requested operation.” This should not be the case as my iMac drive is 1.1 TB and is only one third full.![]() ![]() Went to format it to Mac OS Journaled using Disk Utility and it bricked instantly. I’ve had several Passports and Easystores, so yesterday I bought another one. Any help will be greatly appreciated.HERE’S HOW: OK this is crazy. I really need to be able to format it and make it normal to use, as it holds important documents FirstBankCard. Can anyone help? Cheers ScottFor the moment, the USB flash drive turns inaccessible and can’t be formatted. I am a complete novice and need help in obtaining an idiots guide to this process otherwise I’m in danger of losing all my iTunes. Gamespirit realtek modWTF did classiccomputers.info do to their drives to cause them to brick when you format them? It looks like maybe they partitioned the drive or put a Volume on there and that’s causing them to brick when you erase the partition using Disk Utility. Was up and running in a minute. Found the solution on here: (1) connect the drive to your Mac, (2) open Disk Utility (3) in the far left sidebar, use the dropdown to change View to “all devices” (4) voila, the bricked disk shows up (5) NOW erase the drive, make sure you’re using a GUID partition and Mac OS Extended Journaled.
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