how to wipe the drive on my passport for mac

Wipe The Drive On My Passport Mac OS Extended

Im not sure because it will not mount on my desktop - however, I can see it with Disk Utilities.

I think this might have happened when it was backing up I tried to do something else at the same time with the laptop.not ure.

Any ideas for me to get this drive erased and reformatted Here are some of the errors.

After Disk Utility loads select the drive (out-dented entry with 1TB WD Passport.) from the side list.

Wipe The Drive On My Passport Mac OS Extended

Set the Format type to APFS (SSDs only) or Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Apply button and click on the Done button when it is activated.

After Disk Utility loads select the drive (out-dented entry with the mfgr.s ID and size) from the side list.

Click on the Partition tab in Disk Utilitys main window toolbar.

Set the number of partitions to one (1) from the Partition Scheme drop-down menu.

I highlighted the ghosted disk1s2 clicked on the Mount button as advised.

Nothing. I ran disk utilities: verify and repair on 1 TB WD My Passport 0748 Media and get no errors.

When I run the same on the ghosted disk1s2, I get the errors that it cannot be repaired and that it needs to be formatted.

I have tried formatting both the ghosted disk1s2 and the normal 1 T Passport disk image.

Since disk utilities says the disk is ok, Im not sure what to try next.

One good thing is that Im laughing now at the stupid errors.

Also, today I now see that the partition has renamed itself disk1s3 possibly momentarily.

Unfortunately I dont recall which combo of formatting I used when it actually allowed itself to be formatted and mounted.

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How To Wipe The Drive On My Passport For Mac