New WD Passport 3TB (25E2 Media) will not erase to partition

Hi all,

I just bought a new New WD Passport 3TB and will not erase so I can partition.
I am wanting to partition with ExFat to use on both a mac and a windows machine.

I am using a Mac with the OS Sierra. and attempting to

  • HD is recognized
  • I am able to go to disk utility to start the process.

However when I click erase, I get an error process failed "the disk is too large to be supported by the given partition scheme:

Any suggestions?

Hi mksm ,

Probably you can restart the mac and then try to format the drive in exFAT. Moreover, you can run a First Aid diagnostic test on the drive to check its functionality.

Thanks!

Hi,

I had the same problem.
When I tried to change the selected drive to the most right one, it did work for me!