MY PASSPORT STUDIO
USER MANUAL
USING THE DRIVE WITH WINDOWS – 27
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 http://support.wdc.com and refer to Knowledge Base answer ID 3865 for
information about reformatting the drive.
See “Troubleshooting” on page 28 for more information about reformatting a drive.
Restoring the WD Software and Disk Image
After you have reformatted your My Passport drive for use on Windows computers, go to
http://support.wdc.com and see Knowledge Base answer ID 7 for information about
downloading and restoring the Windows versions of the WD Security and WD Drive
Utilities software and disk image on your My Passport drive.
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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