thankfully, ms dos fat32 and ex fat formats have survived to date, and these are the file system to make your wd my passport work with a mac and a windows pc simultaneously. A wd my passport formatted with mac file system will be a dud on the windows and vice versa. western digital (wd) hard drives are formatted with ntfs (windows) or hfs (mac) by default to make them more compatible with both operating systems. That being said, situations arise when you'll need to format or reformat the drive. currently i store about 64gb of an itunes library on there. Formatted to windows but need to reformat to mac help wd portable drives hi, i have a wd essentials 1tb external hard drive formatted to windows 7. here you can add “ partition label ” to the partition going to be formatted if you want. choose exfat or fat32 among the listed file systems on the drop down menu.
right click the partition on the wd hard drive and choose “ format partition ”. i am a complete novice and need help in obtaining an idiots guide to this process otherwise i’m in danger of losing all my itunes. i’ve just bought my first mac and understand that’ i now need to reformat the disc to mac.
Hi, i have a wd essentials 1tb external hard drive formatted to windows 7.
