Result: Drive does not appear in Disk Utility. Disk Utiltiy indicated indeterminate progress for about 15 minutes, finally indicating that the reformatting failed, and furthermore that re-mounting failed. The drive mounted and I saw two software installers, one for Windows and one for Mac. Did I do anything wrong at the beginning? What should I do now? My late 2020 Apple Silicon MacBook Air, running the latest macOS 12, has only USB-C ports.īelow are the steps I did. Thinking that a drive could be flaky after 5 years, yesterday I bought from Best Buy a new WD 2 TB My Passport to replace it.
For the last week or so, Apple’s Time Machine has been failing to back up to my five year old WD 1 TB My Passport.
