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    rikkibunit
    post Jun 6 2010, 10:02 AM
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    HiHi,

    i recently bought a 1.5b mybook essential and i cannot get it to be recognized by my wd tv mini, it can only see the Smartware that comes with the harddrive?

    please help!

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    post Jun 6 2010, 02:47 PM
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    Backup any important data on the drive, then reformat the drive as NTFS with all default options selected.
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    post Jun 6 2010, 07:48 PM
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    thankyou for replying so quickly!, but i use a mac
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    post Jun 8 2010, 09:22 AM
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    It would have been nice if you'd mentioned that earlier. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

    So in your case, backup any important data on the drive, then reformat the drive as HFS+ with all default options selected but no journaling.
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    post Jul 27 2010, 05:01 AM
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    Hi,
    I have the exact same problem and have been trying to see how to fix it in other forums but I've had no luck. I reformatted the drive as HFS+, disabled journaling and also updated to the latest firmware version. The only thing that changed after this was that instead of not recognising the drive at all now I am only able to see the WD Smartware folders but nothing else.
    I am thinking the only way to fix this would be to re format to NTFS and try the software others have mentioned like MacFuse.
    Any other ideas?

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    post Jul 27 2010, 03:47 PM
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    Before you switch to NTFS and use NTFS-3G etc. on your Mac, one last thing you can try is to completely remove all partitions from the drive, create a single new partition, then format it as HFS+ (non-journaled). Check if that works and let us know. I guess Macs should come with a utility to do this, else GParted is great.
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