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MY PASSPORT ULTRA METAL EDITION USER MANUAL Installing, Partitioning, and Formatting the Drive How to Partition, and format a WD drive on Windows (8, 7, Vista) and Mac OS X Convert a Mac OS X GPT partition to an NTFS partition in Windows 7 or Vista Download software, utilities, firmware updates, and drivers for WD products (from the Downloads Library) Format a WD external hard drive in FAT32* (to use Windows or Mac OS X) Answer ID 3865 3647 1425 291 *The FAT32 file system has a maximum individual file size of 4 GB and cannot create partitions larger than 32 GB in Windows. To create partitions larger than 32 GB in FAT32 when reformatting the drive, download the External USB/FireWire FAT32 Formatting Utility from http://support.wd.com/product/download. Windows users can avoid these size limitation by formatting the drive to NTFS using either the Windows Disk Management utility or similar third-party software. For further details, see: Answer ID 291 at http://support.wd.com Article IDs 314463 and # 184006 at support.microsoft.com The appropriate third-party software documentation or support organization TROUBLESHOOTING - 68

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MY PASSPORT ULTRA
METAL EDITION
USER MANUAL
TROUBLESHOOTING
– 68
Installing, Partitioning, and Formatting the Drive
*The FAT32 file system has a maximum individual file size of 4 GB and cannot create par-
titions larger than 32 GB in Windows. To create partitions larger than 32 GB in FAT32
when reformatting the drive, download the External USB/FireWire FAT32 Formatting Util-
ity from
.
Windows users can avoid these size limitation by formatting the drive to NTFS using
either the Windows Disk Management utility or similar third-party software. For further
details, see:
±
Answer ID 291 at
±
Article IDs 314463 and # 184006 at
support.microsoft.com
±
The appropriate third-party software documentation or support organization
How to
Answer ID
±
Partition, and format a WD drive on Windows (8, 7, Vista) and Mac
OS X
3865
±
Convert a Mac OS X GPT partition to an NTFS partition in Windows 7
or Vista
3647
±
Download software, utilities, firmware updates, and drivers for WD
products (from the Downloads Library)
1425
±
Format a WD external hard drive in FAT32* (to use Windows or Mac
OS X)
291