Comments on: Western Digital Drive with Leopard – “File system formatter failed.”

By: Duncan

Duncan — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:04:30 +0000

Brilliant – like others, I had spent most of a morning getting nowhere; but Google IS your friend – and you are No.1

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 22 May 2010 13:36:15 +0000

Worked with my new WD Elements 1TB drive ( WD 10EADS External Media ) on my Leopard iMac. Was just about to send drive back, so saved me lots of hassle! Thanks

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:58:24 +0000

One word mate. LEGEND!!!!

By: JMac

JMac — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:04:47 +0000

AHHH!! Finally, an answer! Thanks so much, great help indeed.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:01:54 +0000

Brilliant advice. Have been thinking my 1tb hdd was experiencing hardware faults. Thankyou for the tip, even if it is an oldie.

By: snoopfish

snoopfish — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:55:09 +0000

I love the internet for exactly this reason. Thanks.

By: Peter V Cook

Peter V Cook — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:15:37 +0000

Awesome, exact same problem and that work around worked perfectly!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:28:04 +0000

Brilliant. I had spent an hour on this problem; the advice here fixed it in under a minute.

By: jon

jon — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:45:47 +0000

Glad it worked out for you – any know if this is still an issue in Snow Leopard?

By: chris

chris — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:42:19 +0000

thankyou, your advice worked perfectly!