I too am in the midst of trying to connect a WD My Passport drive (2Tb) to our BT Business Hub 5, so two iMacs can see the drive over our wireless network. So far I've managed to reformat the drive to FAT32 and that makes it show up through the router when you browse for network devices - OK, it comes up as 'USB1' rather than the name I gave it when I reformatted it, but we can see it on both Macs, and copy to and from it, although it doesn't seem particularly fast. What we would really like to do is maybe purchase a WD 4Tb NAS drive so we can use it as our shared file store, and be able to back up both Macs to it, probably connecting the drive to the Hub via ethernet, rather than USB. My worry is that given some of the forum answers I've seen, the drive size will be too big for the router to 'see'. Can anyone shed any light, or confirm one way or another? Is FAT32 the best format? The usual Mac formats don't seem to allow the drive to show up. Amf Roadmaster Skyrider Serial Number.

Would a WD NAS device be able to stay Mac specific? Thanks in advance! RobShaw1 wrote: neillyd, Could you tell me how you reformatted your drive to FAT32?

I used some freeware I found online but I'm not sure whether it's done it properly. Thanks Rob If you are using Windows you do not need to use 'freeware' to format a drive. In fact I would be suspicious of any 'freeware' that was offering to do that for you. In Windows you just connect the drive to your computer then go to the Start buton >Computer >and you will see the drive (probably named D or E) Right click on it and you will se the option 'Format'. It will bring up another window. Select the optons you want. A quick format should be sufficient.

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