You are better off treating a 'smart' device as a classic 'dumb' device as it will usually allow any custom setups to work with any model/'brand device. Restart your computer and check if the WD My Passport not recognized issue. Step 3: Write to your WD My Passport drive once it has been successfully mounted. Step 2: Attach the read-only WD My Passport drive to your Mac device using the appropriate cable and then run iBoysoft NTFS for Mac. When you use the WD drive only on a Mac, you can make a copy of everything that is on it now, then - with Disk Utility - partition/erase the disk to: GUID Partition table, Mac OS Extended (journaled). The USB recovery software will start scanning the device, it will take a. Step 1: On your Mac running macOS 10.13 and higher versions, download and install Microsoft NTFS for Mac by iBoysoft. Never use the software that you get with it when you have a mac. These 'smart' TVs are not what they are cracked up to be, nor are they safe (for your privacy, or your networked devices and tend to have a limited time limit for features & updates). Most drives, also WD drives, are standard formatted NTFS when you buy them. Personally I would look into other options for whatever you are doing with the LG TV so that you don't need any NTFS drivers on your Mac. The macOS devices support the following file formats, HFS+, FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS (. Or just purchase all Seagate or all WD drives. Most of the WD drives come formatted in NTFS for Windows and HFS+ for Mac. Maybe the Paragon driver used by one (or perhaps both) have been customized in some way to make them unique.

If you erase the drives yourself, then both should be using a compatible NTFS format. Maybe their proprietary apps are preventing the driver from working with their competitors' drives (I hope that is not the case, but I really don't trust companies these days).ĭid you try erasing the drives yourself since maybe from the factory they each use a slightly different allocation size or some other NTFS feature which may not be compatible between the two different apps/drivers. Have you tried completely uninstalling both proprietary apps and their drivers, rebooting, then installing just one of those proprietary apps? It is possible installing both apps may be installing both Paragon drivers which may be stepping on each others toes.

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