Installing, Partitioning, And Formatting The Drive - Western Digital My Passport User Manual

Installing, Partitioning, and Formatting the Drive

How to
Partition, and format a WD drive on Windows (8, 7, Vista) and Mac
OS X
Convert a Mac OS X GPT partition to an NTFS partition in Windows 7
or Vista
Download software, utilities, firmware updates, and drivers for WD
products (from the Downloads Library)
Format a WD external hard drive in FAT32* (to use Windows or Mac
OS X)
*The FAT32 file system has a maximum individual file size of 4 GB and cannot create par-
titions larger than 32 GB in Windows. To create partitions larger than 32 GB in FAT32
when reformatting the drive, download the External USB/FireWire FAT32 Formatting Util-
http://support.wd.com/product/download
ity from
Windows users can avoid these size limitation by formatting the drive to NTFS using
either the Windows Disk Management utility or similar third-party software. For further
details, see:
Answer ID 291 at
Article IDs 314463 and # 184006 at
The appropriate third-party software documentation or support organization
http://support.wd.com
support.microsoft.com
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