![]() So, if your WD external hard drive is a NTFS drive, you can’t write new data to it. How to solve this issue? Just follow the steps below. Quick way to solve ‘WD external hard drive is read-only on Mac’ issue #1 Back up your WD external hard drive. If you want to the WD external hard drive become a compatible disk for your Mac, you have to format it to FAT/EXFAT/Mac OS Extended. ![]() Before formatting it, you’d better back up important data to a safe disk. #2 Format the WD external hard drive with Disk Utility. To solve this issue, you can use Disk Utility to format the WD external hard drive to a compatible file system. Just open Disk Utility on your Mac, click the WD external hard drive. Select the file system you want and click on Erase button again. Once the process gets finished, you can write new data to your WD external hard drive without any limitation. ![]() If you are going to sell, donate or dispose of your old WD external hard drive, you’d better permanently wipe all data from it. ![]()
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