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 W D Security and WD Drive
Utilities software and disk image on your My Passport drive.
CAUTION! Reformatting the drive erases all its contents. I f you have already
saved files on the drive, be sure to back them up before reformatting it.
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