Using the drive with a mac computer, Reformatting the drive, Restoring the wd software and disk image – Western Digital My Passport Ultra Metal User Manual User Manual

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MY PASSPORT ULTRA METAL EDITION

USER MANUAL

USING THE DRIVE WITH A MAC COMPUTER

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Using the Drive with a Mac Computer

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

http://support.wd.com

and refer to Knowledge Base answer ID 3865 for

information about reformatting the drive.

See “Troubleshooting” on page 67 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

http://support.wd.com

and see Knowledge Base answer ID 7 for information about

downloading and restoring the Mac 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
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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