Using The Drive With Windows; Reformatting The Drive - Western Digital My Passport WDBAAB3200ACH User Manual

Using the Drive with Windows

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The My Passport drive that you purchased is preformatted as a single HFS+J partition
for compatibility with Mac OS X operating systems. If desired, you can reformat it to
NTFS for compatibility with Windows operating systems. (You can also reformat a
Windows drive to HFS+J.)
This chapter includes the following topics:

Reformatting the Drive

Installing on Windows XP
Installing on Windows Vista/Windows 7
Managing the Drive on Windows
Launching WD SmartWare Software
Checking Status and Temperature
Monitoring Icon Alerts
Disconnecting the Drive Safely
Uninstalling the WD SmartWare Software
Reformatting the 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.
Go to support.wdc.com. Refer to Knowledge Base Answer ID 3645 for formatting a Mac
to the NTFS file system for use on Windows XP and ID 3647 for formatting it for
Windows Vista. (Refer to Knowledge Base Answer ID 3322 for reformatting the drive to
NTFS format.) See "Troubleshooting" on page 52 for more information about
reformatting a drive.
If you reformat your drive for use with Windows, follow the procedures below.
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