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

Using the Drive with a Windows Computer

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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 http://support.wd.com
information about reformatting the drive.
See "Troubleshooting" on page 28 for more information about reformatting a drive.
Restoring the WD Software and Disk Image
After you have reformatted your My Passport drive for use on Windows computers, go to
http://support.wd.com
downloading and restoring the Windows versions of the WD Drive Utilities and
WD Security software and disk image on your My Passport drive.
and refer to Knowledge Base answer ID 3865 for
and see Knowledge Base Answer ID 7 for information about
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