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• #HOW TO SPLIT AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE MAC AND PC HOW TO#

Thus you can buy a hard drive enclosure and put internal hard drive in it to make an external hard disk.

Thank you very much Thomas! I hope someone from WD sees this and takes the action of contacting you so that you receive the credit you deserve, and also the monetary compensation. You can take external hard drive as a regular internal hard drive which has been put into a protective case and plugged outside of computer. After that, the drive can be formatted and used without encryption, in a typical USB-to-SATA external case.

If this only works in Linux, at least WD should provide a virtual machine made from this guy, so that people can retrieve their data. This is a well known problem and many people loose invaluable data because of this problem. WD should provide a tool, made by this guy, to help all the people solve this problem in the event of a failed external case. This guy deserves to be contracted by WD and receive big money from them.

#HOW TO SPLIT AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE MAC AND PC HOW TO#

After a few minutes of sending the disc blocks containing the key to Thomas, he was able to point me with the unscrambled key and how to use it in Linux (I used Ubuntu Mate). Here you’ll choose where you want to backup your Mac. Because the two systems use different file systems for storage: Macs use the HFS, HFS+, or HFSX file systems, and PCs use either the FAT32 or NTFS.Luckily, if the drive type (e.g. This board has a Symwave SW6316 chipset which applies hardware encryption of AES-256 to all data. Now that you’re in the Time Machine window, you need to tap select backup disk. While you can physically connect a Mac hard drive to a Windows PC, the PC cannot read the drive unless third-party software is installed. I testes with different power supply and USB cable and nothing worked. The USB-to-SATA board fried and did not start the disc, nor it got recognized by the computer. It was a MyBook Essential 2TB USB3.0, model number wdbacw0020hbk-00. I want to say to everyone that Thomas Kaeding helped me save all the data from a friends hard drive.