Using the drive with a mac, Reformatting the drive, Restoring the wd software and disk image – Western Digital My Passport Edge User Manual User Manual
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MY PASSPORT EDGE
USER MANUAL
USING THE DRIVE WITH A MAC
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Using the Drive with a Mac
The My Passport drive is formatted as a single NTFS partition for compatibility with
updated Windows operating systems. To use the drive on Mac OS X operating systems,
and to use Time Machine, if you want, you must reformat the drive to a single HFS+J
partition.
This chapter includes the following topics:
Reformatting the Drive
Restoring the WD Software and Disk Image
Reformatting the Drive
Go to
and refer to Knowledge Base answer ID 3865 for information
about reformatting the drive.
See “Troubleshooting” on page 55 for more information about reformatting a drive.
Restoring the WD Software and Disk Image
After you have reformatted your My Passport drive for use on Mac computers, go to
and see Knowledge Base answer ID 7 for information about
downloading and restoring the Windows versions of the WD Drive Utilities and
WD Security software and disk image on your My Passport drive.
The WD SmartWare software is not available for Mac computers with this model of
My Passport drive.
CAUTION! Reformatting the drive erases all its contents. If you have already
saved files on the drive, be sure to back them up before reformatting it.
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