Using The Drive With Windows; Reformatting The Drive; Restoring The Wd Software And Disk Image - Western Digital My Passport User Manual

Using the Drive with Windows

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The My Passport drive is formatted as a single HFS+J partition for compatibility with
Mac OS X operating systems. To use the drive on Windows computers, you must
reformat it to a single NTFS partition.
This chapter includes the following topics:

Reformatting the Drive

Restoring the WD Software and Disk Image

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
about reformatting the drive.
See "Troubleshooting" on page 27 for more information about reformatting a drive.
Restoring the WD Software and Disk Image
In addition to deleting all of the data on your My Passport drive, reformatting the drive
also removes the WD Security and WD Drive Utilities software and all of the support files,
utilities, online help, and user manual files. These applications are not currently available
for Windows computers. If you want to have similar capabilities and features as the
WD Security and WD Drive Utilities on your Windows computer, go to
and refer to Knowledge Base answer ID 6739 for more information.
and refer to Knowledge Base answer ID 3865 for information
MY PASSPORT STUDIO
USER MANUAL
support.wdc.com
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