Using The Drive With A Mac Computer; Reformatting The Drive; Restoring The Wd Software - Western Digital MY PASSPORT SSD 2TB User Manual

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Using the Drive with a Mac Computer

The My Passport SSD drive is formatted as a single exFAT partition for compatibility
with updated Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. To use Time Machine on
the Mac OS X operating system, you must reformat the drive to a single HFS+J
partition, which will remove compatibility with Windows operating systems.
This chapter includes the following topics:

Reformatting the Drive

Restoring the WD Software

Reformatting the Drive
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 http:/ /support.wdc.com
information about reformatting the drive.
See Troubleshooting
Restoring the WD Software
After you have reformatted your My Passport SSD drive for use on Mac computers,
go to http:/ /support.wdc.com
about downloading and restoring the Mac versions of the WD Drive Utilities and
WD Security software on your My Passport SSD drive.
The WD Backup software is not available for Mac computers.
My Passport SSD
User Manual
and refer to Knowledge Base answer ID 3865 for
for more information about reformatting a drive.
and see Knowledge Base answer ID 7 for information
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