Western Digital My Book for Mac User Manual - Page 32

MY BOOK FOR MAC USER MANUAL 15 Using the Drive with Windows The My Book for Mac 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 and refer to Knowledge Base answer ID 3865 for 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 Book for Mac drive for use on Windows computers, go to http://support.wd.com and see Knowledge Base answer ID 7 for information about downloading and restoring the Windows versions of the WD Drive Utilities and WD Security software and disk image on your My Book for Mac drive. USING THE DRIVE WITH WINDOWS - 28