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MY PASSPORT FOR MAC

USER MANUAL

USING THE DRIVE WITH WINDOWS – 45

The My Passport drive that you purchased is preformatted as a single HFS+J partition 
for compatibility with Mac OS X operating systems. If desired, you can reformat it to 
NTFS for compatibility with Windows operating systems. (You can also reformat a 
Windows drive to HFS+J.)

This chapter includes the following topics:

Reformatting the Drive
Installing on Windows XP
Installing on Windows Vista/Windows 7
Managing the Drive on Windows
Launching WD SmartWare Software
Checking Status and Temperature
Monitoring Icon Alerts
Disconnecting the Drive Safely
Uninstalling the WD SmartWare Software

Go to support.wdc.com. Refer to Knowledge Base Answer ID 3645 for formatting a Mac 
to the NTFS file system for use on Windows XP and ID 3647 for formatting it for 
Windows Vista. (Refer to Knowledge Base Answer ID 3322 for reformatting the drive to 
NTFS format.) See “Troubleshooting” on page 52 for more information about 
reformatting a drive.

If you reformat your drive for use with Windows, follow the procedures below.