Using The Drive With A Mac; Reformatting The Drive; Restoring The Wd Software And Disk Image - Western Digital My Book User Manual

Using the Drive with a Mac

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The My Book drive is formatted as a single NTFS partition for compatibility with updated
Windows operating systems. To use the drive on Mac OS X operating systems, and to
use Time Machine, if you want, you must reformat the drive to a single HFS+J 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 http://support.wd.com
information about reformatting the drive.
See "Troubleshooting" on page 55 for more information about reformatting a drive.
Restoring the WD Software and Disk Image
After you have reformatted your drive for use on Mac computers, go to
http://support.wd.com
downloading and restoring the Mac version of the WD Drive Utilities software and disk
image.
The WD SmartWare software is not available for Mac computers with this drive model.
and refer to Knowledge Base answer ID 3865 for
and see Knowledge Base answer ID 7 for information about
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