Western Digital My Passport User Manual - Page 31

Using the Drive with a Mac Computer 8 Using the Drive with a Mac Computer The My Passport drive is formatted as a single NTFS partition for compatibility with updated Windows operating systems. To use the drive on Mac OS X operating systems, and to use Time Machine, if you want, you must reformat the drive to a single HFS+J partition. This chapter includes the following topics: Reformatting the Drive Restoring the WD Software Reformatting the Drive 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.wdc.com and refer to Knowledge Base answer ID 3865 for information about reformatting the drive. See Troubleshooting for more information about reformatting a drive. Restoring the WD Software After you have reformatted your My Passport drive for use on Mac computers, go to http://support.wdc.com and see Knowledge Base answer ID 7 for information about downloading and restoring the Mac versions of the WD Drive Utilities and WD Security software on your My Passport drive. The WD Backup software is not available for Mac computers. My Passport™ 27 User Manual