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#Reformatting western digital my passport for mac for mac

From the Utilities folder window, select ‘Disk Utility’ application. When the Finder window opens, on the menu bar, select ‘Go’ and then ‘Utilities.’ After that, you will be able to see /Applications/Utilities folder in Finder. Now, a new hard drive icon will appear on the desktop.

Connect your Western Digital My Passport drive to Mac computer, and let the OS detect and mount the drive for use.

After successful formatting, you can directly save or move files to it like any other external hard drive. Now, again select a ‘Quick Format’ option, then click ‘Start’ option, wait for a few minutes to get your drive reformatted with the FAT32 file system, so that you can use it. To format a Western Digital My Passport external hard drive in ex-FAT or FAT32 format, you can bank on built-in applications of Mac & PC.Ħ. In the next 5 minutes read, you will master yourself in formatting a WD My Passport safely and in a manner best suited for sharing your digital files between a macOS and Windows OS. When I connected the Seagate to my Mac, the drive icon showed up like this. Three weeks ago, I bought a brand new 2TB Seagate Expansion to backup my MacBook Pro before I updated it to the latest macOS.

During the last several years, I’ve used a few external drives, including a 500GB WD My Passport, 32GB Lexar flash drive, and a few others. But as you know, directly formatting WD Elements or My Passport on Mac causes data loss. After having confirmed that the WD My Passport is formatted with NTFS, many people will choose to convert NTFS to APFS (for macOS Catalina, Mojave and High Sierra) or reformat the WD My Passport hard drive to make the WD external hard drive compatible with Mac.

#Reformatting western digital my passport for mac for mac

Where, I am seeing “Instruction” links, for Mac Operating System, for as far back as Mac OS X 10.7. Where and with working to reformat my new HD, I have been directed to base “Support” and then 'Knowledge Base Answer ID 3865.

I have recently bought a “My Passport” External HD.