Hello everyone, i’ve bought myself a unit of WD’s MyPassport 1TB yesterday (model: WDBBEP0010BSL-PESN). I realized when i got home that it isn’t the one i intended to buy, one for mac.

Must’ve had too much in my mind. Lol I read on top of the box it says it requires reformatting to be able to be used on Mac OS X. How do i go about that? Please provide me a step by step guide and be very specific and informative.

For example in my recent review of the Western Digital My Passport, I stated how the device was available in a $150 Windows version and a $160 Mac version. In order to take advantage of accessibility to both operating systems and save $10 I decided to reformat the hard drive myself. FAT32 will let you directly plug the drive into both windows and mac. But you are limited to an individual file size of 4GB mac OS extended will be readable only by macs but your files can be larger. Canon mf8500c series driver for mac.

I’m seeing so much different ways they’re confusing me, so i’d rather just ask straight up to be safe than sorry. Plus i do need to transfer data as i’m running out of space in my MBP.

Would there be anything wrong with reformatting it to Mac? Just out of curiosity. One more thing, The guy at the store told me to go over so he could reformat the External to be used on both a PC/Mac for me.

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While that’s appealing, i read that it can potentially be dangerous and would limit my transfers to 4GB per transfer? Is this correct? Cuz I’d rather just get another 1 to use with my Windows PC than to have risks and a limitation.

Thanks in advance!

Hey there, Logan! You'd need to use a Mac to reformat your WD My Passport in a file system that can be read by Windows. The Mac is needed to store your files from the external HDD until you've reformatted it for use with Windows OS, because this change will result in erasing all the data on the drive. To avoid such future incidents, I recommend using the FAT32 file system because this format can be read and written to by both operating systems. Here's a tutorial that explains how to perform this: Hope this helps!