Using The Drive With Windows; Reformatting The Drive - Western Digital WDBAAC2500ACH - My Passport Elite User Manual

Using the Drive With Windows

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Your My Passport drive is preformatted as a single HFS+J partition for compatibility with
Mac OS X operating systems. If you want, 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
Opening the WD SmartWare Software
Checking Status and Temperature
Monitoring Icon Alerts
Disconnecting the Drive Safely
Uninstalling the WD SmartWare Software
Getting Started Without 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 . . . For information about how to . . .
3633
3645
3647
Note: See "Troubleshooting" on page 56 for more information about reformatting
After reformatting your drive for use with Windows, use the procedures in the following
sections.
and:
Install, partition, and format an external hard drive in Windows Vista.
Convert a Mac OSX GPT partition to an NTSF partition in Windows XP.
Convert a Mac OSX GPT partition to an NTSF partition in Windows Vista.
a drive.
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