Reformat External Hard Drive For Mac And Windows

The drive is exactly as advertised. �The Windows version comes formatted using the �Windows NT standard. �If you have a Mac and want a color other than black: �Buy the Windows version in whatever color you like and reformat it for Mac. � To do that, plug it into your Mac, and install the Western Digital Mac utility that comes on the drive. �Use that utility to erase & reformat the drive �-- you'll get an error message if you try to reformat it using Apple's Disk Utility if you have High Sierra. �It reformats quickly and - voila - you have a Mac-compatible drive. � If you want to retain the software that comes with the drive, just copy it to your desktop, reformat the portable drive, and copy the software back onto it.

I use windows 8.1 quite often. On this mac, all drives (except the internal flash drive) are external. Windows runs great off Thunderbolt connected drives. You can have multiple window drives and select the one you want on boot by holding down the option key.

I reformat the drive for windows 8. I use it for pictures storage, great drive great price!

Good drive, but if you are a Mac user, be sure to reformat the Drive to MAC OS Journaled. It used to be the case that ExFat was okay if you needed to share a drive between a Mac and a PC user. But with the newer OS updates, my ExFat drives no longer read the data in Final Cut Pro X. What a hassle! I have to buy another one of these just to use it as a transfer tool so I can re-format my ExFat drives. That takes a lot of time and money. Hope that helps someone out there NOT to make the mistake I made.

This drive was easy to install and reformat on my Mac system. Works as it should.

I normally use Seagate for external hard drives because they can be read by both Windows and Mac without a problem. I bought 2 of these WD hard drives because I need to consolidate my hard drives and these are very good. Recommend.

Had to replace old external hard drive for back up. The Passport fit seamlessly into my new Windows 7 program without any set up and my data was backed up in short order. It is so compact and convenient with the best price that I found on the internet

The speed of data transfer is amazing. The hard drive is compatible with both the Windows and Mac file system i.e. amazing. Plus it is very handy to carry.

have been using it for over a month now, as i'm still learning to use a mac, using the hard drive, thats made to sync mac, is not as easy as a windows;but its still by far a lot easier, than i thought, and B & H is the best place to buy this product

Excellent External hard drive.