Using The Device With Windows Computers - Western Digital My Book Pro User Manual

Using the Device with Windows Computers

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The My Book Pro device drives are initially formatted as HFS+J partitions for
compatibility with supported Mac OS X operating systems. To use the device on
Windows computers, you must reformat them to to either:
exFAT
NTFS
CAUTION! Reformatting the device erases all its contents. If you have already saved
files on the device, be sure to back them up before reformatting it.
IF you want to use . . .
exFAT
NTFS
THEN . . .
1 Use either the Drive Erase function or the RAID Management
Configuration function of WD Drive Utilities software on your
Mac computer to reformat the device drive partitions to exFAT.
2 Safely dismount the device drives and disconnect the device
from your Mac computer.
3 From your supported Windows computer, go to:
http://support.wd.com
4 Download and install the latest Windows version of the
WD Drive Utilities software.
5 Connect the My Book Pro device to your Windows computer
as shown in "Connecting the Device and Getting Started" on
page 7.
6 If a Found New Hardware screen appears, click Cancel to
close it. The WD software installs the proper driver for your
device.
7 Verify that the device appears in your computer's file
management utility listing and on the Windows WD Drive
Utilities screen.
Your My Book Pro device is now ready to use on your Windows
computer.
1 Safely dismount the device drives and disconnect the device
from your Mac computer.
2 From your Windows computer, go to:
http://support.wd.com
3 Download and install the latest Windows version of the
WD Drive Utilities software.
4 Connect the My Book Pro device to your Windows computer
as shown in "Connecting the Device and Getting Started" on
page 7.
5 If a Found New Hardware screen appears, click Cancel to
close it. The WD software installs the proper driver for your
device.
6 Verify that the device appears on the Windows WD Drive
Utilities screen.
7 Use either the Drive Erase function or the RAID Management
Configuration function of the Windows WD Drive Utilities
software to reformat the My Book Pro drives to NTFS partitions.
Your My Book Pro device is now ready to use on your Windows
computer.
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