Hi, I recently purchased a 4Tb My Passport For Mac, via Amazon, for my MacBook Pro (2017). Out of the box it arrived pre formatted to NTFS? Why would WD do this? It seems illogical for it to arrive out of the box this way and not pre formatted to a HSF, OS Extended journaled. Regardless I intend to partition the drive as: 2Tb as OS Extended Journaled for Time machine 2Tb ex fat as a scratch drive I can use on either Windows or Mac. Apart from the obvious issues of loosing both partitions on if drive failure occurs, would someone please advise if the following action steps are the best to proceed to achieve my goal. 1/ Erase My passport - in so doing loosing WD Image containing software and related info - formatted as OS Extended journaled. 2/ Partition to 2 x 2Tb partitions - formatting one as Ex fat. WD My Passport Ultra 1TB drive not detected on PC, how to fix it? Hard drive to FAT32 so that the drive can run on both Windows and Mac. Time Machine Backup for macOS: Answer ID 1694: Starting macOS Time Machine Backups to My Passport and External USB Drives. Any advice appreciated - apologise if this has been covered off on a previous thread but my preliminary search didn’t exactly relate (to be sure to be sure) Disclaimer: New to Mac with only iOS experience (iPhone,Ipad) Cheers Rossco. Thethin: the shipped product is P/N: WDBYFT0040BBK-0A that’s not a Mac drive. Have a look at the model numbers at the bottom of this page and also the product ‘Overview’ states that it’s not Pre-Formatted for Mac. It says Requires reformatting for Mac OS X operating systems 4TB My Passport for MAC is WDBP6A0040BBK either you ordered the wrong drive or Amazon shipped you the wrong drive (or listed the wrong model number). The My Passport portable external hard drive stores massive amounts of photos, videos and music, so you can easily take your treasured content everywhere you go.
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