There are two separate versions listed on the Seagate site, one for macOS 10.10 to 10.15, and another for the Macs running an Apple silicon chip. Or, if you bought an external hard drive from Seagate, it should come with Paragon Driver to let you read and write data interchangeably on Windows and Mac without formatting the drive. Click on your WD Elements drive, then click Setup Disk. Then Scroll Down To Time Machine And Click. In System Settings scroll down to General. You can use a third-party app to write to an NTFS disk on a Mac. Using Your WD Elements External Hard Drive With Time Machine From Mac OS Ventura onwards. As a consequence, you won’t be able to add, change, or delete files. On macOS, you can only read disks in this format, not write to them. Is your external hard drive showing up as “read only” on your Mac? This usually happens because the drive is formatted with Microsoft’s NTFS file format.

Here’s a guide to macOS disk permissions to help you understand the technical concepts. This lets you set the permissions to Read & Write to yourself while keeping the read-only for other users. If this is a drive you formatted yourself, you can change the individual permissions in the box above. Wondering if this is an issue with Monterey since the older coms are not running that OS and are working fine.You won’t see this option if the external storage is used as a boot drive or a Time Machine backup drive. Not sure what to do as the internet isnt helping solve the problem.

It also still works on older devices.Ĥ) The other drive is brand new and nothing is working for that one to mount as well. ( error 49153.'ģ) I have run diagnoistics on the older drive and everything came back fine. Neither are working on the new ones.Ģ) I have looked in disk utility and I can see the drives but I cannot mount them. No matter what I do I can not get ANY exernal drive to mount on any of my new Macbooks running Monterey.ġ) I have downloaded the WD discovery and utility which is the program that has helped my older macbook and imac mount the drives. I also bought a brand new external drive (WD My Passport- which is suppoed to be compatable with macs) as well as have my old external drive (WD My Passport) that has been working on my old mackbook 15in and my even older iMac for years. If you are unsatisfied with the resolution provided by our support team, please let us know. We appreciate your business, and I am grateful for the trust you’ve placed with us. My Passport Drives not working on brand new comp I have recently bought a brand 2 new Macbook Pro 14in and its running Monterey. When you purchase from Western Digital, you can expect an advanced, highly reliable product, backed by a team of industry-leading engineers and customer professionals.

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