Wd My Passport How To Reformat For Mac

In Windows Platform: 1. Connect your Western Digital My Passport hard drive to your Windows PC through the USB cable. Now, click the Start button and select ‘This PC’. Locate the icon assigned to Western Digital My Passport drive and Right-click. Select the ‘File System’ from the. Jun 22, 2017 - Hello all, Today I bought the 4tb 'My Passport' from Best Buy. I came home to set it up and backup my computer (a 2015 MacBook Pro running.

Hello everyone, i’ve bought myself a unit of WD’s MyPassport 1TB yesterday (model: WDBBEP0010BSL-PESN). I realized when i got home that it isn’t the one i intended to buy, one for mac.

Must’ve had too much in my mind. Lol I read on top of the box it says it requires reformatting to be able to be used on Mac OS X. How do i go about that?

Please provide me a step by step guide and be very specific and informative. I’m seeing so much different ways they’re confusing me, so i’d rather just ask straight up to be safe than sorry. Plus i do need to transfer data as i’m running out of space in my MBP. Handbrake for mac 10.6.8.

Would there be anything wrong with reformatting it to Mac? Just out of curiosity. One more thing, The guy at the store told me to go over so he could reformat the External to be used on both a PC/Mac for me. While that’s appealing, i read that it can potentially be dangerous and would limit my transfers to 4GB per transfer? Learning curve for mac from windows 7 to windows 10. Is this correct? Cuz I’d rather just get another 1 to use with my Windows PC than to have risks and a limitation.

Thanks in advance!