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Using the Drive with a Mac Computer
8 Using the Drive with a Mac Computer
The My Passport Ultra drive is formatted as a single NTFS partition for compatibility
with updated Windows operating systems. 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.
This chapter includes the following topics:
Reformatting the Drive
Restoring the WD Software
Reformatting the Drive
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.
Go to http://support.wdc.com and refer to Knowledge Base answer ID 3865 for
information about reformatting the drive.
See Troubleshooting for more information about reformatting a drive.
Restoring the WD Software
After you have reformatted your My Passport Ultra drive for use on Mac computers,
go to http://support.wdc.com and see Knowledge Base answer ID 7 for information
about downloading and restoring the Mac versions of the WD Drive Utilities and
WD Security software on your My Passport Ultra drive.
The WD Backup software is not available for Mac computers.
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