MY PASSPORT STUDIO
USER MANUAL
USING THE DRIVE WITH WINDOWS – 26
Using the Drive with Windows
The My Passport 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
Go to support.wdc.com and refer to Knowledge Base answer ID 3865 for information
about reformatting the drive.
See “Troubleshooting” on page 27 for more information about reformatting a drive.
Restoring the WD Software and Disk Image
In addition to deleting all of the data on your My Passport drive, reformatting the drive
also removes the WD Security and WD Drive Utilities software and all of the support files,
utilities, and user manual files. These applications are not currently available for
Windows computers. If you want to have similar capabilities and features as the
WD Security and WD Drive Utilities on your Windows computer, go to support.wdc.com
and refer to Knowledge Base answer ID 6739 for more information.
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.
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