The WD SmartWare software is not available for Mac computers with this model My Passport drive.ĬAUTION! Reformatting the drive erases all its contents.
S ee “Troubleshooting” on page 55 for more information about reformatting a drive.Īfter you have reformatted your My Passport drive for use on Mac computers, go toĪnd see Knowledge Base answer ID 7 for information aboutĭownloading and restoring the Mac versions of the WD Drive Utilities software and disk image on your My Passport drive. Information about reformatting the drive. Reformatting the Drive Restoring the WD Software and Disk ImageĪnd refer to Knowledge Base answer ID 3865 for This chapter includes the following topics: 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. The My Passport drive is formatted as a single NTFS partition for compatibility with updated Windows operating systems.