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How to reformat WD Passport External HD?
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<blockquote data-quote="dtravis7" data-source="post: 367551" data-attributes="member: 8287"><p>How is it now formatted? My Passport came in FAT32. If yours is that way it will work fine in OSX. If it's in NTFS, NOTHING but 32 Bit Windows will Write to an NTFS drive, but OSX will read the drive. If it's in NTFS, I would back it up and format in FAT32. That way everything can read it. The problem is if you are in XP is XP will not format drives FAT32 over 30+ GB. You can do it on the Mac when you get. Check and see if it's not already FAT32.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dtravis7, post: 367551, member: 8287"] How is it now formatted? My Passport came in FAT32. If yours is that way it will work fine in OSX. If it's in NTFS, NOTHING but 32 Bit Windows will Write to an NTFS drive, but OSX will read the drive. If it's in NTFS, I would back it up and format in FAT32. That way everything can read it. The problem is if you are in XP is XP will not format drives FAT32 over 30+ GB. You can do it on the Mac when you get. Check and see if it's not already FAT32. [/QUOTE]
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