Downloaded passport hard drive to macbook, but can't back up

[ariadne3333]

After attaching the WD Passport Elite to my 2007 MacBook, all the files read "this file is not a movie file." I partitioned it in Disk Utilities, set it to GUID, and hit partition. Now when I open the Passport icon on my desktop, there's nothing inside , and it says "0 files, 297.88 GB Available." I don't have TimeMachine. How do I get everything to upload and backup to my hard drive? Or did I not do the previous steps right somehow? Thanks so much for helping I'm going crazy here!

 

[gnasher729]

After attaching the WD Passport Elite to my 2007 MacBook, all the files read "this file is not a movie file." I partitioned it in Disk Utilities, set it to GUID, and hit partition. Now when I open the Passport icon on my desktop, there's nothing insideView attachment 150329, and it says "0 files, 297.88 GB Available." I don't have TimeMachine. How do I get everything to upload and backup to my hard drive? Or did I not do the previous steps right somehow? Thanks so much for helping I'm going crazy here!

I am not quite sure what the problem is.

If you had an external hard drive connected to a PC and stored data on it, then the hard drive was most likely in a format that the Macintosh cannot read. The partitioning will have destroyed any data that was on the hard drive.

 

[ariadne3333]

This MacBook is the first computer I've owned, and it's a brand new hard drive, so there was nothing to erase...

 

[BlueRevolution]

You can find tons of backup apps on MacUpdate, any of which should work. Just be sure to read the reviews before you download.