Reformat Usb Flash Drive From Mac To 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 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.

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.

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

This is a great value-- 5TB will give me the room I need to back up files and archive. This is not the fastest drive but I wasn't looking for speed-- just cheap storage. I was also looking for reliability. This is a good brand. Compact, rugged, and highly visible. Compatible with MAC or Windows. Make sure you use a dedicated cable-- USB C to USB C or USB C to USB A-- no adapters. I tried a USB A adapter on a USB C cable and my IMAC did not see the drive-- not even in disk utility. A regular USB C to USB A cable did the trick. It did not mount directly-- I still had to go in to disk utility but there it was. It comes formatted in EX-FAT but I reformatted easily in to MAC Journal Extended. I was up and running in minutes. I also plugged it in to a Windows 10 laptop before the reformat, and it saw the drive right off. A great purchase and I'm happy with the drive. It's no speed demon, but that's not why I picked it up. Image shows HD and USB C to USB A cable (cable not included).

Bought this drive recently, since it was formatted for Mac O/S, I had to look up instructions on how to reformat it in NTFS. It was a very easy process once you see how it's done. It has a USB3 interface, but I'm not able to utilize it on my PC (too old) but I will be adding an expansion card for the future. It took me many hours to transfer 2TB of data to this drive due to having to use it on USB2. I've already loaded it up with files and need another one! Thanks for the great deal, B&H. Would buy again for sure.

I have not really used it yet. I had to reformat the drive for Mac. As far as I can tell the hardware is excellent. There is software available for use on the Mac. The documentation for that software does not make at all clear any reason why it might be better than using Time Machine on the Mac. It may be that it allows encryption of the data on the drive. It was not clear. The real downside of the drive was that when I attempted to register it with Western Digital I was told the warranty had expired.

Windows 11 pro in the USB drive very practical

Update can be done without old CPU with USB flash drive only.