![]() Check whether the drive is properly plugged in. ![]() By reformatting your WD Elements for your Mac. Don’t fret you can change the formatting. You can only read your Elements external hard drive. But when you want to put documents on the drive, or update any files on the drive your Mac says no. Your Mac can see and read your NTFS Elements drive. NTFS is a PC format that a Windows PC uses. For more advice about installing macOS or Mac OS X read How to update the Mac operating system and How to install old versions of OS X on a Mac. Pick the drive you wish to use to start up the Mac. Sometimes it happens to other external HDDs at the same time. It does not only affect new drives that have been preformated for a PC but those already formatted for the Mac that have not previously had the problem and even the few that come preformatted for the Mac. The problem of external drives on the Mac becoming read only goes on and on. ![]() If the situation were reversed, and my PC could only read the files and copy them, it wouldn’t be a big deal, but I need to be able to store things from my MAC laptop to the hard drive. I found the tutorial for reformating the hard drive for use with both MACs and PCs, but I am ot very tech savvy, and I’m concerned about the risks.
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