How To Format External Hard Drive For Mac & Windows (ms Dos Or Exfat?) what you should know is that formatting will erase all data on the drive. then, i’ll introduce you to workable and easy ways to format wd passport external hard drive, wd elements external hard drive and other external hard drives. Two effective ways to format wd passport for windows. more less ipad, ios 7.1, i have an ipad air. I recently got a wd my passport ultra and can anybody tell me how to format it for both mac and pc use. and the whole thing takes only a few minutes to do. after that you can use your passport external hard drive on both mac and pc. next you format your drive to an exfat file system. you format your my passport to mac os extended (journaled) file system. you plug in the wd my passport into your mac.
once that's done, double left click on the mac hd, the internal mac hard drive visible on the top right corner of the desktop lect "applications > utilities > disk utility". Once the process begins, all the data on the drive will be lost! step 1. enter a relevant name in the volume label field.
select the file system from the drop down list and choose either exfat or fat32.
locate the icon assigned to western digital my passport drive and right click the connected drive icon, and click format in the pop up menu.
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