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1. Western digital my passport 1tb software for mac Pc#
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Western digital my passport 1tb software for mac Pc#

The corruption chances of the external drive increases, if it is used on both Mac and PC systems regularly.Like FAT32, ex-FAT is not a very commonly used file system, due to which its support may vary among third-party devices.Ex-FAT supports maximum volume size up to 128 PiB, and its supported maximum file size is 128 PiB.Therefore, it is better to choose ex-FAT instead. Due to some limitations FAT32 format is not useful for every type of user, and also affects both Mac’s and PC’s performances.There are specific third-party systems, like Digital Camcorders, and Sony PlayStation 3, which need the drives to be formatted in either FAT32 or ex-FAT format to perform read from and write operation.

Western digital my passport 1tb software for mac windows#

Format your Western Digital My Passport external hard drive to FAT32 or ex-FAT format so to transfer the data between a Mac and Windows system conveniently.

Once formatting is done, you can use the drive in macOS or OS X as a regular hard drive.Now, click the ‘Erase,’ button and wait a few minutes and let the macOS erase data on the drive and reformat it by FAT32 or ex-FAT format.Now, the Erase dialogue window appears, here select the ‘Volume Format’ drop-down list and choose ‘MS-DOS (FAT)’ or ex-FAT File System.’ Note: ex-FAT is a better choice for formatting WD My Passport on Mac. Click ‘Erase’ on the Disk Utility file menu.When the Disk Utility opens, choose the Western Digital hard drive icon from the sidebar.From the Utilities folder window, select ‘Disk Utility’ application.

When the Finder window opens, on the menu bar, select ‘Go’ and then ‘Utilities.’ After that, you will be able to see /Applications/Utilities folder in Finder. Now, a new hard drive icon will appear on the desktop.